Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM

[Jonathan D. <jdu...@ci...>]

Very informative

Jonathan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Wessner" <we...@iu...>
To: <bac...@li...>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup VM


> Hello Jonathan,
>
> I found in the vmware documenation that there is a command line tool
> that you can use to start/stop single VMs: vmware-cmd
> Have a look at this link pointing to the VMware docs:
>
> http://pubs.vmware.com/server1/admin/manage_vmbackup_onhost_gsx.html#1002716
>
> I haven't done this, but maybe this is useful for you?
>
> Dirk
>
> Jonathan Dumaresq wrote:
>>> As far as I know, when the VMware tools are properly installed on the
>>> guest operating system, if you shut down the vmware server the guest
>>> systems are shut down gracefully before the server exits. You can
>>> configure this in the VM settings (Power Options or so).
>>> So before backing up, you could just stop vmware server and start it
>>> again afterwards.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
>> I'll like more suspend 1 server at the time. It will be down a shorter
>> time.
>>
>> Jonathan
>
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