Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC for Windows and ESXi best practices

2010-06-28 Thread higuita
Hi > > Windows, OTOH, is a completely new animal for me. Can anyone give me > > some best practices on what to back up on a Windows VM? Or would it > > be better to just back up the VM lock, stock and snapshot? The VM is > > running on VMware ESXi 4.0, so I am still learning how snapshots and > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC for Windows and ESXi best practices

2010-06-28 Thread Pedro M. S. Oliveira
Hi, To backup Windows with backuppc I usually do the following: 1 - create a ntbackup routine to save systemstate. 2 - backup with backuppc the whole c: drive (and others if you have them) using rync service in windows (including systemstate backup files). to restore: 1 - install windows (same ve

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC for Windows and ESXi best practices

2010-06-26 Thread B. Alexander
Hey folks, I've been using BackupPC to back up my network for something like 4 years. I am quite comfortable with that part. This query is more general. All of the machines on my network are Linux, so my experience is very...one sided. When I back up a Linux box, my goal is to preserve not only t