Generally in that case you want to do something like make a nfs share one of the hosts can see and let the tools move the files for you.
The cli has some downsides to it that you don't really ever want to do file operations in and out using it if you can help it. -Blake On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/05/2014 12:04 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: >> >> Be careful doing direct backups of a recently shut down guest in ESX. >> The clone / backup etc tools are there for a reason and the cli is not >> designed to be safe for direct file access like that. >> >> -Blake >> >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Similar issues with other programs have (in windows) required a reboot. >>> Otherwise, try using a different VMware guest image, then shut it down. >>> Then you might be able to get the backup of the first VMware guest image. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Grrrrr. >>>> >>>> Trying to make a tar backup of a VMware guest. I've done this several >>>> times before. Shut down the guest, login to the esxi server via ssh and >>>> tar >>>> up the guest directories. >>>> >>>> Except this time its barking at me that files are in use! lsof shows >>>> all >>>> manner of stuff! WTF?? Off no longer means off?? >>>> >>>> Howard >>>> > > Thank you for that caution, Blake. I've made backups but I haven't tried to > run from one of them yet so I may be kidding myself. > > Here's the deal. I built this one too large (longer story than that but > this will do). I'd like to back this up before I work through the steps to > reduce its size. I do not have enough space on our VM hosts to make copies > -- I have to dump this off to a non-VM NFS drive, work my magic and THEN use > the vConverter program... > > If I had the disk space, I wouldn't even be doing this drill. > > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
