Hello all,
since the post is some month old - how do you now backup your *.dsk files?
Did you find a way around exporting the files with vmkfstools?
We are using the VMware ESX Server and by now have 400GB of virtual files.
It is quite painfull to export them before backup. So right now we backup
each VM with an Networker Client inside the VM.
URL: www.vmware.com/pdf/ESXBackup.pdf mentions that Legato Networker is
not able to backup files greater than 2 Gigs and therefore one has to use
vmkfstools. Does anybody know of any plans to overcome that limitation?
thanks for any ideas
Regards
Peter
On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:23:12 -0400, jollyk AT charter DOT net <jollyk AT
CHARTER DOT NET>
wrote:
>Hello All,
> Here is something new...
> Has anyone tried to backup /vmfs/*.dsk and /vmconfig
> on a Red Hat Linux OS?
>
> It appears to backup the dsk files you need to stop the VMWare
> processes and then copy them to another location.
>
> I am interested in recovering the logical host instance (dsk)
> along with the vmconfig files on another machine for D.R.
>
> There is also a trick to install the RHL client, using rpm.
> Legato is looking for curses files that may NOT exist in
> the /usr/lib directory. If need more info. let me know..
> I will send you the work around.. This is for 6.1.3
> Once the client is installed, Man pages and drivers work with
> the supplied VMinstall script from Legato.
>
> Let me know what you've tried or seen.
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
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