Re: [nlug] Let go of my vm-guest!

2014-06-05 Thread Blake Dunlap
Generally in that case you want to do something like make a nfs share one of the hosts can see and let the tools move the files for you. The cli has some downsides to it that you don't really ever want to do file operations in and out using it if you can help it. -Blake On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at

Re: [nlug] Let go of my vm-guest!

2014-06-05 Thread Howard White
On 06/05/2014 12:04 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: Be careful doing direct backups of a recently shut down guest in ESX. The clone / backup etc tools are there for a reason and the cli is not designed to be safe for direct file access like that. -Blake On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jack Coats

Re: [nlug] Let go of my vm-guest!

2014-06-05 Thread Chris McQuistion
You could just connect with the vSphere Client, browse the datastore and download the whole directory to your local machine, then do whatever you've got to do. It's point and click and not cool-guy-command-line Chris On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Blake Dunlap iki...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [nlug] Let go of my vm-guest!

2014-06-05 Thread Howard White
On 06/05/2014 01:56 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: snip It's point and click and not cool-guy-command-line Chris Bwahahahahaha! I'll try that also. Howard -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send email to