backup vmware
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 20:45:19 UTC 2007
Scott Henson wrote:
>> How can I do the backup???
>>
>>
> I'm going to guess that cpio is your problem. You might want to add a
> "-H newc" to your cpio command line. Otherwise use tar as I believe it
> will handle files over 2GB.
>
> Alternatively, you can tell vmware to split its disks into two gig
> chunks. Thats a image creation option though, so it may not help you
> here.
Also be sure your vmware clients are shut down for the duration of the
copy. The disk images would be corrupted if they changed during the copy.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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