On Friday, March 16, 2012 02:58:50 PM Stanislav wrote: > On 3/16/2012 12:10 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Friday, March 16, 2012 10:43:19 AM Stanislav wrote: > >> On 3/16/2012 9:42 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 08:53:43PM +0400, Stanislav wrote: > >>>> Thanks a lot. > >>>> > >>>> Next simple question from my side. I wanted to use scripts before > >>>> and after snapshot creation, but see that there is no RPC messages > >>>> from ESX(WS) to VMTools(and no any actions in the scripts). Does it > >>>> work fine for others? Maybe there are some tricks? > >>> > >>> What scripts/snapshots are you talking about? Are you trying to set up > >>> VCB or just regular VM snapshots? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Dmitry > >> > >> I'm talking about regular VM snapshot, scripts: > >> /usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script and /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script > > > > Regular snapshots are transparent to the VM and no scripts are being > > invoked. The pre-freeze-script and post-thaw-script are being invoked y > > vmbackup plugin when doing a VCB snapshot. > > > > Thanks, > > Dmitry > > Dmitry, yes, sorry, my mistake. I meant VCB and vmbackup plugin.
Stanislav, You should have gotten the answer already from Paul (he mentioned you were on the thread) but for the benefit of others following the thread: If you have "Snapshot the virtual machine's memory" box checked when you take the snapshot we will not invoke vmbackup plugin and therefore will not execute pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts as there is no point in quescing the filesystems - we are talking a full snapshot of the system, including all the operations that are currently in progress. You need to quesce filesystems if you are not saving contents of VM memory so that the data being backed up is in consistent state should you need to restore it. Thanks, Dmitry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
