yeah I have a couple snapshots already that I took before some major changes to the guest OS, but to dump the snapshots, I have to log in, access the datastore, and download the files, and the whole thing is not even scriptable. I would need to make a backup at the very least every other day, and to do it manually every time is not feasible.
-Dante On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Brian Friday <[email protected]>wrote: > Have you looked at that snapshot capability (off the top of my head might > have the name wrong). > > ie dump a snapshot of the vm your running? > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've started using VMware ESXi on one of our servers, and it works pretty >> nicely, but the one issue I have to figure out is backups. I have the option >> of manually downloading from the datastore using the admin console, and >> store it on a workstation for example, but the VM has to be off, and it's a >> manual operation. >> >> Did anyone here use it and managed some kind of live VM-level backup >> without shelling out for the $3000 Virtual Center product? >> >> -Dante >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
