On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Wojtek Pięcek wrote: > > For backup of the vmdk files, I adapted my custom script for ESC 2.x to > > 3.x (in stead of redo logs you have to snapshot) so I can online backup > > the vmdk files. Works flawless. > > For a all-in-one backup script, google for vmbk. > > Why not use client at virtual machine level? It have better gradiation > (single file). Yes, restoring all machine is very complicated for > client level backup. We do weekly backups of the vmdk files. We also backup the server it self with the TSM client.
It takes 30 minutes to restore a running server from a vmdk backup. So the vmdk file backup is for quick DR restores and the TSM client is used for single file/directory restores. We once tried to extend the C: disk: 50% chance that this went wrong and we had to restore the C: disk. But since it took only 30 min to restore the server, we dould try untill it worked. Stef
