You can access the underlying host OS, which has a very limited command set, but scp and tar are included so you could do a ghetto version of rsync.
One issue is there is no cron, but you could set up a remote server to initiate the transfers via ssh. -Pat On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
