[BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi BackupPC community, I was wondering if there is a functionality to allow someone to back up their box running VSphere (as an OS). Ideally, I would run one command and it would sequentially back up every VM on the VSphere box. Thank you for your time. Kind Regards, gshergill

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, gshergill backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi BackupPC community, I was wondering if there is a functionality to allow someone to back up their box running VSphere (as an OS). Ideally, I would run one command and it would sequentially back up every VM

[BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi Les Mikesell, No, not only does it not have any special facility to deal with the VM host (other than generic ssh commands), the large VM image files would always have changes that would prevent backuppc's pooling from working for them. On the other hand you could set

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, gshergill backuppc-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi Les Mikesell, No, not only does it not have any special facility to deal with the VM host (other than generic ssh commands), the large VM image files would always have changes that

[BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread gshergill
Hi Les Mikesell, Thanks for the response, I found VMWare Script can do the functionality I require. Thank you for your help. Kind Regards, gshergill +-- |This was sent by gasherg...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward

Re: [BackupPC-users] Functionality to Back Up VSphere box?

2012-09-04 Thread Doug Lytle
gshergill wrote: I was wondering if there is a functionality to allow someone to back up their box running VSphere I'm running ESXi5 Free and use the GhettoVCB scripts to back up my VMs. Maybe this will work for you as well: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 Doug -- Ben