Thank you, Guido! Much appreciated. Good information to know. -craig
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Guido Falsi <m...@madpilot.net> wrote: > On 10/18/15 07:31, Craig Shiroma wrote: > > Thank you, Heitor! The information is much appreciated. > > > > Re: > > > > - Bare Metal Restores - however, I'm not sure if this is still in > > development > > > > I had no news from BMR in Bacula community version for such a long time, > > probably because virtualization is increasingly popular and it's much > > easier to backup a full VM for disaster recovery purposes. I know BE has > > a improved and easier version of BMR for Windows and Linux however. > > > > Does this mean that Bacula Enterprise can backup a VM, meaning the > > actual vmdks that make it up (all filesystems) and restore the VM? Or, > > do you mean it can backup all the data on the VM and to restore the host > > if it was destroyed, the VM has to be re-created and then BE restores > > the data? If the former, that would be great! > > At previous work I was able to backup vmware VMs snapshots and could > just restore the files and connect those to newly created VMs. > > I was using this to copy snapshots to an NFS volume: > > https://github.com/lamw/ghettoVCB > > After getting the snapshots to NFS I just made bacula backup that to the > tape library. Backups done in this way tend to be big, and no > incremental strategy applies, since they always are new files. > > Similar strategies can be applied to other visualization technologies. > > -- > Guido Falsi <m...@madpilot.net> >
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