[THIN] Re: OT: VMWare backups
- From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:06:08 -0700
The only problem with this method is it does not quiesce the OS and it's
applications before taking the snapshot. However, now with Hyper-V
Microsoft has VSS support from the Parent Partition down the Application
Level inside the Virtual Machine.
Joe
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Stefan Timmermans
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 1:41 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: VMWare backups
Another alternative is to create a REDO log using the esx shell command
(vmkfstools & vmware-cmd on ESX2.5.X) , make an tradional tapebackup of the
vmdk
on the ESX host, you can choose between veritas netbackup, TSM (Tivoli
storage manager) or even other file backup systems (see on the Vmware
compatibility list) if you open the firewal with esxcfg (on ESX3) , and
after the backup commit your redo (log) file to the main vmdk file. You
don't need any special license or program , just use what ESX offers you !
Never had any incident in 3 years doing so and even had one planned disaster
recovery exercise on this completed succesfully.
Ususally I do it as follows: the C:\ or system drive is done like I
explained to quickly recover your OS and applications. for data recovery you
choose
for backups inside the Virtual machine like there are SQLbackupagents,
Notesbackupagents , ....
Regards,
Stefan
2008/10/8 <jstrowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Esxpress is a good product. We just had to do a server restore from a
corrupted database and the incrementals worked just fine to roll us back 4
days.
The best method of backup is a combination, i.e. traditional agent inside
the virtual machine and a product like esxpress to grab the vmdk files et al
at the linux level.
Both methods provide a pretty decent level of coverage.
Msg: #3 in digest
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:18:05 -0400
From: Tom Diroff <tdiroff@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: VMWare backups
Hi
We use Esxpress ( esxpress.com <http://esxpress.com/> ) and have been pretty
happy with it.
Good Luck
Tom Diroff
University of Michigan
Steve Snyder wrote: so how are ya'll backing up your virtuals? Right now
we're backing up each virtual at their OS level, looking a vRanger to do a
back-end snapshot backup. Of course BUE 12.5 was just released which is
supposed to support vmware (and hyper-v) too.
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