Re: [BackupPC-users] backup virtual machine vmware
I explain to you. I have various VMs and from those servers I only backup the data and so it will remain for all the reasons you explained to me. of a single VM, which is a windows10, there is software installed that acts as a switchboard and has various installations to make it work including java and various plug-ins which are not backed up so in case of machine crash to install new the whole switchboard is crazy, instead if I copied the whole VM in case of crash I recover everything including the operating system Il giorno gio 12 gen 2023 alle ore 14:32 G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> ha scritto: > Hi there, > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, lu lu wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, lu lu wrote: > > > > > > > ... is it possible with backuppc to backup a complete virtual > machine? > > > > ... > > > > > > Yes, but it's pointless. You may as well just make a copy. > > > > > > There are better ways to do what you want, for example you might look > > > into snapshotting filesystems. > > > > > ... > > Can you explain better what you mean? > > Read the documentation. > > One of the most important features of BackupPC is its deduplication. > > That means even if it keeps hundreds of backups, it need only keep one > copy of any particular file if the file hasn't changed from one backup > to the next. > > If you backup an entire VM as a file it will always be different (from > minute to minute, let alone from backup to backup). Not only will the > BackupPC system not be able to deduplicate the file, it probably won't > be able even to complete a copy before the file has changed - so files > it tries to copy might not actually be usable. You might need to stop > the VM while the backup is taking place in order to get an internally > consistent, usable result. > > Snapshotting filesystems 'freeze' an image of the filesystem at some > particular time but they permit that filesystem to continue working > normally. You can then copy any frozen files at your leisure, without > resorting to things like stopping your VMs during backups. > > Backing up large databases for example may need similar consideration. > > Why would you want to back up a complete VM anyway? It's usually much > better to have a template for the VM and then back up for example just > the user data, which will usually be tiny by comparison with a full VM. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] backup virtual machine vmware
hi thanks for the reply Can you explain better what you mean? thank you Il giorno mer 11 gen 2023 alle ore 13:54 G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> ha scritto: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, lu lu wrote: > > > ... is it possible with backuppc to backup a complete virtual machine? > > ... > > Yes, but it's pointless. You may as well just make a copy. > > There are better ways to do what you want, for example you might look > into snapshotting filesystems. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
[BackupPC-users] backup virtual machine vmware
hi all, is it possible with backuppc to backup a complete virtual machine? directly from vmware and don't backup inside windows, let's say backup as they run various paid softwaree on the market for example veem. thank you ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc to server on vmware
hi everyone, I solved the problem and I share it with you, it was much simpler than it seemed in practice from windows server 2012/2016 and 2019 the SMB service is disabled by default, it was enough to install it, with restart of the server, and now everything seems to work perfectly thank you all Il giorno ven 7 ago 2020 alle ore 10:27 marki ha scritto: > Hello, > > What is the error message? > Please ask good questions. Please don't ask question of the type "it > doesn't work" and make assumptions. > > It doesn't matter if the host is physical or virtual. But clearly your > infrastructure has changed. Have you asked your admins if they changed > anything else while virtualizing? > > Marki > > On August 7, 2020 9:48:00 AM GMT+02:00, lu lu wrote: >> >> hello to the group >> i have a backuppc installed on debian 7. >> I backup 3 physical servers with windows server 2008, with backuppc I >> backup every night of the folder on the disk called DATA with SMB system, >> and it has been working like this for some time and it works very well. >> but two of the three servers have been replaced with 2019 servers but on >> VMWARE and no longer physical, and from this moment I can no longer make >> backups of the DATA folder, why? someone can tell me if by chance with >> Backuppc to backup a server installed on vmware some particular >> configuration must be done? doesn't work n SMB? >> >> ps: I don't want to back up the virtual machine, I want to back up some >> folders in the virtual machine HDD every night >> >> thanks to anyone who answers me >> > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] backuppc to server on vmware
817/5000 the problem is that it does not give any error message, the structure has not changed, I am the network administrator, I have reconfigured the host with the new parameters of the new server sorry you're right I didn't post the error log Running: / usr / bin / smbclient poseidone \\ E \ $ -U SEAT \\ administrator -E -d 1 -c tarmode \ full -Tc - full backup started for share E $ Xfer PIDs are now 25662,25661 protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_RESET protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_RESET tarExtract: Done: 0 errors, 0 filesExist, 0 sizeExist, 0 sizeExistComp, 0 filesTotal, 0 sizeTotal Got fatal error during xfer (No files dumped for share E $) Backup aborted (No files dumped for share E $) Not saving this as a partial backup since it has fewer files than the prior one (got 0 and 0 files versus 0) Il giorno ven 7 ago 2020 alle ore 10:27 marki ha scritto: > Hello, > > What is the error message? > Please ask good questions. Please don't ask question of the type "it > doesn't work" and make assumptions. > > It doesn't matter if the host is physical or virtual. But clearly your > infrastructure has changed. Have you asked your admins if they changed > anything else while virtualizing? > > Marki > > On August 7, 2020 9:48:00 AM GMT+02:00, lu lu wrote: >> >> hello to the group >> i have a backuppc installed on debian 7. >> I backup 3 physical servers with windows server 2008, with backuppc I >> backup every night of the folder on the disk called DATA with SMB system, >> and it has been working like this for some time and it works very well. >> but two of the three servers have been replaced with 2019 servers but on >> VMWARE and no longer physical, and from this moment I can no longer make >> backups of the DATA folder, why? someone can tell me if by chance with >> Backuppc to backup a server installed on vmware some particular >> configuration must be done? doesn't work n SMB? >> >> ps: I don't want to back up the virtual machine, I want to back up some >> folders in the virtual machine HDD every night >> >> thanks to anyone who answers me >> > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
[BackupPC-users] backuppc to server on vmware
hello to the group i have a backuppc installed on debian 7. I backup 3 physical servers with windows server 2008, with backuppc I backup every night of the folder on the disk called DATA with SMB system, and it has been working like this for some time and it works very well. but two of the three servers have been replaced with 2019 servers but on VMWARE and no longer physical, and from this moment I can no longer make backups of the DATA folder, why? someone can tell me if by chance with Backuppc to backup a server installed on vmware some particular configuration must be done? doesn't work n SMB? ps: I don't want to back up the virtual machine, I want to back up some folders in the virtual machine HDD every night thanks to anyone who answers me ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
