You could just connect with the vSphere Client, browse the datastore and download the whole directory to your local machine, then do whatever you've got to do. It's point and click and not cool-guy-command-line....
Chris On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Blake Dunlap <iki...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <hwh...@vcch.com> 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 <j...@coats.org> 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 <hwh...@vcch.com> 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 nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > 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 nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > 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 nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 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 nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
