[THIN] OT: VMWare backups

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@umich.edu>
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: VMWare backups

Hi
We use Esxpress ( 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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