[LinuxUsers] VMware ESXi

[Dante Lanznaster]

Interesting... I'll look into it, thanks for the tip. Maybe I could dump
stuff locally to an external USB drive?

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Patick O'Brien <pat at petta-tech.com> wrote:

> You can access the underlying host OS, which has a very limited command
> set, but scp and tar are included so you could do a ghetto version of rsync.
>
> One issue is there is no cron, but you could set up a remote server to
> initiate the transfers via ssh.
>
> -Pat
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> yeah I have a couple snapshots already that I took before some major
>> changes to the guest OS, but to dump the snapshots, I have to log in, access
>> the datastore, and download the files, and the whole thing is not even
>> scriptable. I would need to make a backup at the very least every other day,
>> and to do it manually every time is not feasible.
>>
>> -Dante
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Brian Friday <brian.friday at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Have you looked at that snapshot capability (off the top of my head might
>>> have the name wrong).
>>>
>>> ie dump a snapshot of the vm your running?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I've started using VMware ESXi on one of our servers, and it works
>>>> pretty nicely, but the one issue I have to figure out is backups. I have the
>>>> option of manually downloading from the datastore using the admin console,
>>>> and store it on a workstation for example, but the VM has to be off, and
>>>> it's a manual operation.
>>>>
>>>> Did anyone here use it and managed some kind of live VM-level backup
>>>> without shelling out for the $3000 Virtual Center product?
>>>>
>>>> -Dante
>>>>
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