On 2/16/2011 6:30 AM, J. Echter wrote:
> Am 16.02.2011 03:59, schrieb Randy Katz:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a client who seems to want to build a cloud. Just curious if
>> anyone has installed and setup backups for
>> the VMWare ESXi or vSphere Hypervisor (same product different name as
>> far as I read) for Bacula. Understanding
>> this software does not sit on an O/S but is an O/S itself not sure how
>> it would be approached or whether individual
>> VM's/Machines would be backed up in this scenario. PS - I am already
>> familiar with Xen and OpenVZ installations
>> so referencing them in the answer would be great.
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Randy Katz
> Hi,
>
> im backing up my Virtual Machines as i would a normal box. There's 
> also a script for backing up VM's, it's called GhettoVCB. 
> http://www.virtuallyghetoo.com
>

Same here using KVM. I backup the VMs separately as I would a normal 
box. A template VM is kept that has a minimal system with bacula-fd. 
Restore is performed by dd'ing the template image into the VM image 
(file or LVM volume), then booting the minimal system and running a 
restore from bconsole just like a normal box. This is not much slower 
than backing up a VM image, but without needing snapshots, etc. to 
backup a live VM.

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