If you want a consistant backup, a not expansive method is to use pre and
post command :
PRE
vmrun stop /path/to/virtualmachine/vmx/file.vmx pause
Do backup
POST
vmrun stop /path/to/virtualmachine/vmx/file.vmx start
In this way backup will be OK. But server will not be up during backup ..
Marc
2007/9/7, Stephen Zemlicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 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.
>
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> [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
>
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