No, I'm not backing up the pure vmdk files. I'm just backing up the critical directories on each VM. This is my home network, I'm not too worried about backing up the full vmdk file. If I have to ever re-build I have all my config files backed up. That’s all I am really looking to do. I would have to say though, ideally, backing up the vmdk file would be a much better solution - can't get any simpler than that.
-- Michael D. Wood ITSecurityPros.org www.itsecuritypros.org -----Original Message----- From: Silver Salonen [mailto:sil...@serverock.ee] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 4:31 AM To: Michael D. Wood Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula On 08.08.2012 11:13, Michael D. Wood wrote: > Yes. The shares are created on the Windows VM. The security > permissions were changed to only allow administrator and bacula > access. I then created entries in fstab on the Linux machine where > bacula-director is running. I created mount points for each share on > the Windows VM. I created a .smbcredentials file that gets parsed by > fstab for the correct credentials to mount the smb shares from > Windows. The mount directories were chown'ed to the user bacula and > group bacula. > Verified I could read and write to the shares from the Linux server > and files that were created were owned by bacula. > > This is currently backing up a Windows DC, 2 x Linux servers (mail, > web, Mysql, openfire, DNS etc.). I've also got the bacula-client > package installed on my pfSense router/firewall. Couldn't get this to > work from the web interface, so I just modified the bacula config > files manually via SSH. Working great. So now if I look at the > shares on the Windows vm all my backups have ran and are in their > respective folders. > > Hope that answered any questions. > > -- > Michael D. Wood > ITSecurityPros.org > www.itsecuritypros.org So Bacula backs up the pure VMDK files, fully every time (as partial file backups are not supported)? -- Silver
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