I like the idea of backing up the vmware image. That way you have very little restore time. Just copy and you're up and running. No reconfig necessary. If you use rsync, shouldn't it just copy the changed data? I understand files on the image might move around but majority should stay the same and therefore the data wouldn't have to be copied for each backup.
_____________________________ Stephen Zemlicka Integrated Computer Technologies PH. 608-558-5926 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 11:43 AM To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM On 09/07 11:36 , Jonathan Dumaresq wrote: > Hi all, > I start playing with VMware-server. I want to be able to backup the VM > image with backuppc. I would like to know also if someone here have > already deal with this ? Best thing to do is to just set up backups of each of the VMs as if they were independent boxes. that way you won't be backing up the VM image, which is a giant monolithic file which is constantly changing. don't back up the vmware disk images, unless there's no other way to do it. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
