Interesting... I'll look into it, thanks for the tip. Maybe I could dump stuff locally to an external USB drive?
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Patick O'Brien <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
