> I am relatively new to the FreeBSD game and have a bit of a problem which I > am not sure how to tackle. I recently build a server running VMWare ESX > Server 3 which will eventually run 6-7 small production VM's. These Virtual > Machines obviously have the need for backups and it poses quite a problem > for me unless I connect 6-7 external tape drives and give each VM it's own > tape device. I have looked into a few solutions using VM products > (consolidated backup) but it can only be done if you utilise a SAN. > > The server is running RAID 5 with around 700GB of space. Each VM may take up > to 50GB and backups might be around 15-20GB per VM. The machine itself has > an internal LTO3 tape drive, has anyone come across this kind of situation > before, and if so what would be a good way to backup each VM? It is easy > enough to backup the image files from the host machine but I need file level > backups within each VM also. > > I will be very grateful for suggestions or ways people have tackled this > kind of problem in a production environment.
We use rdiff-backup to perform incremental backups of VMWare machine files. It works very well. Check it out at http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ Let me know if you need help on the setup. On the other hand, if you prefer to backup the VMWare machines as if they were physical ones, then I suggest rsnapshot. Of course, this will only work with UNIX VMs. More info here http://www.rsnapshot.org/ Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
