Re: Backup of OpenBSD under VMware

2018-07-02 Thread Jonathan Matthew
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 02:23:24PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Hello, > > the scenario is a cluster of ESXi nodes on which OpenBSD should run as a VM. > > Currently the cluster is being backed up by Veeam, I tried to insert th > obsd VM inside the backup job but no success, with following

Re: Backup of OpenBSD under VMware

2018-07-01 Thread Bruno Flueckiger
On 30.06.18 14:23, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > Hello, > > the scenario is a cluster of ESXi nodes on which OpenBSD should run as a VM. > > Currently the cluster is being backed up by Veeam, I tried to insert th > obsd VM inside the backup job but no success, with following "Error: An > error

Re: Backup of OpenBSD under VMware

2018-06-30 Thread Tom Smyth
> Hi Paolo > if you dont have vmtools installed on the guest you cant do filesystem > quiescing > > Create a separate veembackup job for your openbsd vms and disable > filesystem quiescing on that backup job > > If you run workloads such as dbs run a db backup (dump using your db > tools) so >

Re: Backup of OpenBSD under VMware

2018-06-30 Thread Bryan Harris
Last resort shut down VM then backup. I like the tool called tarsnap. It backs up to a remote service and you keep a private key. Everything is encrypted before it “exits” your VM for the remote side. Also very cheap. I only backup a few files and spent barely a penny. > Your current account

Backup of OpenBSD under VMware

2018-06-30 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
Hello, the scenario is a cluster of ESXi nodes on which OpenBSD should run as a VM. Currently the cluster is being backed up by Veeam, I tried to insert th obsd VM inside the backup job but no success, with following "Error: An error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the