Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-08 Thread Michael D. Wood
Yea I understand. There are always advantages and disadvantages to how its done. This way seems to work for me - especially with no money spent :p -- Michael D. Wood ITSecurityPros.org www.itsecuritypros.org -- Live Se

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-08 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2012/8/8 Silver Salonen > > Ehh :) > > My question was about Michael's specific solution and how he has > configured his backups. And he does not use vSphere plugin :P > > Sure, I realized this after send... :) sorry for that. best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-08 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/8/2012 4:57 AM, Michael D. Wood wrote: > 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 bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-08 Thread Silver Salonen
On 08.08.2012 15:21, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, 2012/8/8 Silver Salonen mailto:sil...@serverock.ee>> So Bacula backs up the pure VMDK files, fully every time (as partial file backups are not supported)? If you use a Bacula vSphere plugin than you can backup a vmdk images (w

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-08 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2012/8/8 Silver Salonen > > So Bacula backs up the pure VMDK files, fully every time (as partial > file backups are not supported)? > > If you use a Bacula vSphere plugin than you can backup a vmdk images (with some additional files which is required to do a proper VM recovery) with a ful

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-08 Thread Michael D. Wood
day, 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 > permis

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-08 Thread Silver Salonen
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 point

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-08 Thread Michael D. Wood
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 .sm

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On 07.08.2012 23:52, Michael D. Wood wrote: Not the prettiest way...but this is how I backed up VM's. I attached a backup device to a Windows VM and shared out backup directories I created. I edited fstab where Bacula Director daemon is running and configured it to mount the shares on boot.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-07 Thread Michael D. Wood
Not the prettiest way.but this is how I backed up VM's. I attached a backup device to a Windows VM and shared out backup directories I created. I edited fstab where Bacula Director daemon is running and configured it to mount the shares on boot. The shares were also created and owned on the W

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On 07.08.2012 18:37, Michael Namaiandeh wrote: Hi everyone, I have another question about Bacula. This time it's regarding a vmware environment. I would like to have Bacula backup some VM's that I have on ESX machines. I know this is typically done (with other backup software such as BackupE