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    Does anyone else here run VMWare ESX ?

    I've come across a nice little backup script for taking backups of your virtual machines.

    It does it from a snapshot , so doesn't affect any of your guest machines uptime.

    So far I'm very impressed.

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    I always copy and paste my images. I've mount up something like a terabytes worth though in the last month. Yay for cheap storage. Does it back it up to some archived format? Otherwise surely copying and pasting does the trick?

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    Copy and paste isn't quite as easy with ESX ( given that its a dedicated OS not an application like GSX or VMWare server )
    also this does it from a snapshot so you dont have to suspend machines , which isn't a problem in you sandbox environment , but when you run production virtual hosts its a different kettle of fish.
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    VI3, the successor to ESX can take snapshots of its virtual machines.

    In fact its designed so that it takes its snapshots say at midnight, then spends the rest of the day mounting them on an external server with the backup device so you can get normal sorts of backups aswell.
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    ESX 3 does it natively too

    all this is is a very neat perl script that pulls it all together. It means I dont have to faff around with setting up cron jobs etc.

    It'll even mail me nice pretty logs when its done.
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