From: Bas Bahlmann || Steady IT Systeembeheer
> I am using rsync for my customers to have disaster recovery off-site
> with files from a VMware Server (under Linux). All works very well, but
> when I defragment the VM's (once a week) or Exchange defragments it's
> datastore the disk layout changes
Hi Bas,
I'm not sure if this is of interest, but I also had issues with VM
disk-image sparse-files (in my case KVM, rather than VMWare), which
I've now resolved.
http://www.finalcog.com/rsync-vm-sparse-inplace-kvm-vmware
All the best,
Chris Dew.
P.S. Apologies for any breach of etiquette - I