[Lvlug] Debian Backups

[Caleb Shay]

On 12/11/06, Benjamin Long <bflong at longbros.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 09 December 2006 11:09 am, Caleb Shay wrote:
> > However, most of my machines are virtual machines these days, so I just
> use
> > esXpress (yes, I work for them, yes, I wrote a lot of it).  You can
> think
> > of it as the ability to do (while the machine is up):
>
> Is there something like esXpress for Vmware Server? All my servers have
> been
> moved over to virtual machines and something like that would be most
> useful.


That would be the question we get at least twice a day.  The answer is...not
yet.  We're actively working on it though.  Expect beta release in the next
few months.

In the interim, you can easily script something along the lines of
(depending on your platform and version):

vmware-cmd /path/to/server.vmx addredo
<copy your .vmdk files somewhere>
vmware-cmd /path/to/server.vmx commit

Depending on your platform and version you may be using vmware-vdiskmanager
instead of vmware-cmd, and the flags have changed recently, but basically,
add a REDO, copy the VMDKs, apply the redo.  Instant full backups for free.

Caleb
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