Re: [BackupPC-users] Anyone tried using VMWare Server?

[Dan P. <da...@in...>]

the thing that will hurt you with vmware is disk i/o - if your windows box
has unused I/O capacity (and plenty, plenty of memory) then it probably
would be a reasonable thing to do.

it should be pretty simple to set up - give it a shot.

In my experience with vmware workstation, installing vmware and
installing a linux OS into it are simple.

once you've done that, installing backuppc is trivial.  The "hard"
part will be configuring and understanding how it works, and that will
be useful regardless of whether you decide that running under vmware is
the right way to do it.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 05:21:35PM -0700, Justin Best wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> A couple of months ago there was some discussion about running BackupPC inside the new VMWare Server product. Has anyone tried this yet? Any tips?
>  
> My reason for asking -- I've got a Windows Server that's not anywhere near capacity. I was going to put a BackupPC box out there on the network, but the I figured I could save a few bucks on hardware and some floor space by just loading VMWare Server onto the Windows Server machine and making BackupPC run inside a Virtual Machine.
>  
> Has anyone played with this type setup enough to tell me whether or not this strikes them as A Bad Idea?
>  
> Justin Best
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