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

[Phil Barnett]

On Sunday 10 August 2008 03:25:29 pm Jason Boxman wrote:
> 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?

Then you'll need the VMWare product. If the image file is not static, nothing 
can copy it successfully. Not rsync, not cp, nothing.

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