Hello list! Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > if you want easy restores of a vmware image; build some sort of mechanism > that shuts down the vmware guest instance, then does a backup of the image, > then starts the vmware guest again. our web developer at work does this for > his Windows session, keeping the old copies around (bzip2'ed) in case he > needs to revert. you do sacrifice a lot of speed for this ease and > simplicity of recovery tho. >
As far as I know, when the VMware tools are properly installed on the guest operating system, if you shut down the vmware server the guest systems are shut down gracefully before the server exits. You can configure this in the VM settings (Power Options or so). So before backing up, you could just stop vmware server and start it again afterwards. Regards, Dirk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
