Re: [Discuss] Manual or third-party ESX(i) backup?

2014-11-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:sc...@ehrlichtronics.com] I do mean human (or scripted).If you run VMWare on a workstation, and you preserve the VM folder for each VM, you can easily restore what you have. Does the same hold true, in theory, for the server side? Regardless of workstation

[Discuss] Manual or third-party ESX(i) backup?

2014-10-31 Thread Scott Ehrlich
From a fundamental viewpoint, what is the difference between manually copying VMs from the server to the backup system and using a commercial product, being SRM or third-party? What might we be missing manual vs third-party (or SRM) product? I am not looking at/for assumptions of how the

Re: [Discuss] Manual or third-party ESX(i) backup?

2014-10-31 Thread Richard Pieri
On 10/31/2014 1:22 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: If we manually preserved, and lost the VM or the server, and rebuilt with original media, could we simply copy the manually preserved copies back over and be operational again, or are the add-on options the only way to make this happen? The former.