[LinuxUsers] VMware ESXi

[Patick O'Brien]

I am not sure what their support would be for the USB drive itself - easiest
way to do it, now that I think about it, is to create a datastore from an
NFS Share of your backup server, load it through the VIClient interface as a
datastore and just have the remote script do a simple cp piped through tar
to that directory. On a GigE connection I can usually get about 80MB/second.
Having the files compressed beforehand would certainly make the copy time a
lot less.

-Pat

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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