Last resort shut down VM then backup. I like the tool called tarsnap. It backs up to a remote service and you keep a private key. Everything is encrypted before it “exits” your VM for the remote side. Also very cheap.
I only backup a few files and spent barely a penny. > Your current account balance is > $4.990771969348983750. V/r, Bryan Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 30, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Paolo Aglialoro <paol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > the scenario is a cluster of ESXi nodes on which OpenBSD should run as a VM. > > Currently the cluster is being backed up by Veeam, I tried to insert th > obsd VM inside the backup job but no success, with following "Error: An > error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual > machine.". This looks strange to me because the open-vm-tools implemented > inside the kernel are usually functional to ESXi hosts. > > Questions: > 1. has anybody found a way to use Veeam to backup OpenBSD VMs? > 2. are there any other suggested softwares to perform a similar task? > > Thanks