On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:54:53 +0000, Arnau Coll wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Did you try to Backup vmdk's of an ESXi server? I've googled but
> there're no certain answers... I think that ESXi is so striped to try
> to deploy bacula-fd in the System, but, trying to copy by ssh the
> files to other System before Backup,...
>
> What method do you use?

Hi,

We use VMware Data Recovery (VDR) for this job. It's an application 
which plugs into the vCenter.
You get deduplication and other fancy stuff with it.  It is still under 
development but works great
for us.
Don't use file based backup software like Bacula on vmdks:  The backup 
volume will kill you.
If you change one  byte inside the VM you have to backup all of the 
vmdk image which will be
substantially (!) larger.

Cheers Jan

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