On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> wrote: > So my question is about backup. I’m running this in VMware 4.0 and my backup > Software is BackupExec 2010 R2. I have the Agent for VMware infrastructure > and can back up the VM that way, just did it and it worked.
Steven Peck gives excellent advice. One thing not mentioned: In general, backing up *nix systems can be much simpler than MS Windows. You can generally do a full system backup & restore with an ordinary file copy or archive utility. There's no "System State" or "registry" or other special magic; it's all just plain files. Files can generally still be accessed by "root" even when they're locked open, so you don't need an "Open File Agent". Restore is the same way. The exception is anything which keeps data files "hot" all the time, such as most databases (e.g., MySQL). The typical approach is to have the database dump to a flat file right before the backup runs. Obviously, with a VM infrastructure, you're going to be interested in snapshots, and if you've already invested in Backup Exec, you're likely going to want to continue with their stuff, but it's worth a mention. I've got various *nix backup scripts of varying complexity I can share, should you be interested. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
