[Leaplist] Backing up live VMWare VM's (on the cheap)

[Jason Boxman]

On Sunday 10 August 2008 03:31:30 Phil Barnett wrote:
> On Sunday 10 August 2008 12:10:16 am David Simmons wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > Was hoping to poll the group and see if anyone has
> > a good solution for VMWare Virtual Machine Backups on live
> > servers....without using Vmware's Consolidated Backup program (i.e. -
> > doing it on the cheap).
>
> I'd be looking at rsync instead of copy. Faster and far more efficient.

What if the VM instance is live during the backup of its vmdk?


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