Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up vmware virtual machines
On 02/16 05:11 , Les Mikesell wrote: Yes, it is going to treat any change as a new file. And your copy will probably not work unless the machine is shut down or you work from a snapshot during the backup. I have actually restored VMs from backups made while the machine was not quiesced; and it worked. That said, if I actually really care about the data on the machine, I'll back it up separately (and exclude the disk images from the regular backups). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
[BackupPC-users] backing up vmware virtual machines
I now have several vmware virtual machines. How does BackupPC deal with them? For example if my virtual harddisk file changes slightly can the hardlinks / pooling feature deal with this, or will BackupPC backup the whole file again. At about 2GB per harddisk file this would be very costly spacewise. If BackupPC cannot deal with the incremental changes to the file, what would be the best way to work around this. I am thinking of making a one-off copy of all the files then using vmware's snapshots feature to deal with the incremental changes. Does anyone have experience doing this? If so please guide me. It is all new to me. Thanks. Krsnendu dasa BTW v3 is going really well for me. I love being able to edit the config files from the web page. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up vmware virtual machines
Krsnendu dasa wrote: I now have several vmware virtual machines. How does BackupPC deal with them? For example if my virtual harddisk file changes slightly can the hardlinks / pooling feature deal with this, or will BackupPC backup the whole file again. At about 2GB per harddisk file this would be very costly spacewise. Yes, it is going to treat any change as a new file. And your copy will probably not work unless the machine is shut down or you work from a snapshot during the backup. If BackupPC cannot deal with the incremental changes to the file, what would be the best way to work around this. I am thinking of making a one-off copy of all the files then using vmware's snapshots feature to deal with the incremental changes. Does anyone have experience doing this? If so please guide me. It is all new to me. One approach is to simply treat them the same as any other machine and back them up directly instead of taking the image file. That would let you restore files directly to your choice of a physical or virtual machine. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
