Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up vmware virtual machines

2007-02-18 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
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

[BackupPC-users] backing up vmware virtual machines

2007-02-16 Thread Krsnendu dasa
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] backing up vmware virtual machines

2007-02-16 Thread Les Mikesell
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