Thanks km, for your reply
Tim
km wrote:
Yes. (At least for ESX3, but I would guess v4 is the same.)
Use standard Linux excludes for temporary or in-memory filesystems and VMFS,
nothing else special about it.
-km
On 14/04, Timothy Hughes wrote:
yoda, thanks for your reply. I understand wh
Yes. (At least for ESX3, but I would guess v4 is the same.)
Use standard Linux excludes for temporary or in-memory filesystems and VMFS,
nothing else special about it.
-km
On 14/04, Timothy Hughes wrote:
> yoda, thanks for your reply. I understand what your saying about not
> backing up the host
yoda, thanks for your reply. I understand what your saying about not
backing up the host. However if the client wants it backed up can we
use the Tivoli Linux client and if so is there anything special we would
need to do regarding the dsm.sys file? include/excludes?
yoda woya wrote:
There is
There is not much to gain for backing up the host... just log files
and executable that could be installed from the esx media. If you are using
VI3, use VCB to backup VMs or installs the TSM client on each VM. If you
are using vSphere 4, install TSM client on each vm or use the new Backup API
tha
Hi Richard thanks,
The Client would like a hybrid of that.they want all the ESX Hosts
backed up. Entire server. Also, they would like clients installed on
all the VMs and those backed up (so far, all Windows)
The ESX servers (HOSTs) are very small and would only require a full
backup once
Hi Timothy,
What do you want to do? Backup Full-VM's (.VMDK files), or do a file backup of
the VM's.
In the Windows Client Guide (6.1/6.2) there is a chapter on how to backup this
using a proxy node. It is not advisable anymore to install a Linux client in
ESX because in the near future the
