-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tim,
> Anyway, the idea of trying to automatically work with VMware images at the > block level without VMware's tools is not that great. True. Thanks for the great mail. It subsummed really nearly everything which is related to all this. Just one point where you seem to be wrong: You mentioned "VMware tools" (don't get confused with the "official" VMware Tools running inside the guest) which are only available on ESXi for money. Are you aware of the VI Perl Toolkit? That contains Perl and a couple of Perl scripts you can execute remotely even without a VirtualCenter server. And as far as I know VMware has a Linux vApp with the installed toolkit ready to download. So this should solve a lots of issues as it offers the same functionality (for free!) to ESXi as a standalon ESX has. Just remotely. As far as I remember you can even do some stuff directly to ESXi instead of the need of VirtualCenter [not sure, I have always a VirtualCenter running ;)]. > *could* shut down the guest, make an LVM snapshot, restart the guest and > use the LVM snapshot to perform a block-level rsync-style (or even > cp-style) copy of the images. Re taking snapshots of the guest instead of shutting down. With journaling file systems this shouldn't be an issue. I use ext3 with "data=ordered" thus preventing any issues with the filesystem during a snapshot/ backup. I just removed my snapshot and realized I have data growth about 8GB/ day. So not too much. I have to figure out now a way how to perform backups of the pool....block based as any filesystem based ones failed up to now. Greetings Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKqXFb0XNIYlAXmzsRAi56AKCUPjPqGTXZmX4rNmcO0vto4am6cACghROB fv++3M2RYzFKZTxCSw41Ysc= =at7A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
