I am not sure what their support would be for the USB drive itself - easiest way to do it, now that I think about it, is to create a datastore from an NFS Share of your backup server, load it through the VIClient interface as a datastore and just have the remote script do a simple cp piped through tar to that directory. On a GigE connection I can usually get about 80MB/second. Having the files compressed beforehand would certainly make the copy time a lot less.
-Pat On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
