Hi everybody,
the cleanest way I found was a script to stop and export the VMs on a
local (to VM server) disk and rsync them on a bacula server disk. In this
manner we can move the VM on another VMserver and save it on tape using
bacula.
I tried also to use the VMWare NFS in order to export directly on a bacula
disk, but there always were access problems. Using Linux NFS was safe, but
veeeeery slow.
By the way rsync gives more performance without using the update feature,
disk file seem too big for rsync algorithm.
Any other experience will be welcome ad if someone would like a copy of
the export script (to some extent general) I can sent it.
Maybe a bacula client capable to read and backup a vmwere clone would be
useful.
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DAve <dave.l...@pixelhammer.com> wrote on 21/01/2010 15.42.54:
> DAve <dave.l...@pixelhammer.com>
> 21/01/2010 15.42
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> Per
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> Oggetto
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> Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula - ESXi - vmdk hot backup
>
> Carlo Filippetto wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I would like to backup my virtual machine VMDK on ESXi 3.5
> > There's a way to do it with the machine on and I have a consistent
bck?
> > What kind of change I have to do?
> >
> > Otherwise.. I can make a hot clone of my VM and backup it?
> >
>
> We tried several times to find a way to use Bacula, unsuccessfully. I
> finally ended up using a script called ghettoVCB.sh and using scp to
> copy the files over to where bacula could get to them.
>
> If you find a better way I would love to know about it.
>
> DAve
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