backup vmware
roland
roland at cat.be
Sat Nov 17 09:37:51 UTC 2007
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:45:19 +0100, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
>
Would it be ok to exports some dirs in the clients and mount them in the
main partition, who takes the backup?
--
Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba
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