Perhaps I spoke too soon, I am reading that Virtual Server is VSS aware... You might be in luck :)
________________________________ From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup MS Virtual machines At least with VMware, Trying to do that is like taking a picture of a physical hard disk with a digital camera, and trying to restore it by printing it out on an ink jet printer. You need a VM aware backup product, something that works with snapshots. Not sure if there are any for Virtual Server. For VMware, yes. Unless you have a ton of vms on one box, I would just throw an agent on the vm. Disaster Recovery of the vm will still be extremely easy, and in my eyes, more flexible because you can exclude many useless/old files when restoring, greatly reducing the time needed to restore. ________________________________ From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup MS Virtual machines Yes.... And when I do that, the VM Stops. That is what I am trying to avoid. Bob Fronk From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup MS Virtual machines Just back up the physical folders that contain the files for the VM? Chris From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:25 hrs To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup MS Virtual machines Except I am not using VMWare.... I am using MS Virtual server. Bob Fronk From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup MS Virtual machines Not found a client that will do that yet. Hopefully Legato will come out with something accordingly. Probably want to look into ESX ranger to do a copy of the VMX, VMDK to another box at an offsite for DR. Its silly that EMC owns Vmware pretty much and they cant get a client that will work with the ESX OS which is just a flavor of RedHat. Z ________________________________ From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup MS Virtual machines I am not backing up the data on the VM, I want the whole .vhd, .vmc for disaster recovery. Bob Fronk From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup MS Virtual machines Even if you load the agent on the VM and try to backup the VM? ________________________________ From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Backup MS Virtual machines I need advice on the best software to backup Microsoft VMs. (I am not concerned with the host, just the VM files) I have tried Symantec BackupExec, but it stops the VM during the backup. Is there a solution that does not have to have the VM in a stopped state? Bob Fronk This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Davis H. 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