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[Networker] backing up vmware (esx3) from Legato, guests, hosts, does it work best practices?

2007-04-02 10:13:17
Subject: [Networker] backing up vmware (esx3) from Legato, guests, hosts, does it work best practices?
From: Scott Clous <Scott.Clous AT CCCI DOT ORG>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:10:11 -0400
backing up vmware (esx3) from Legato, guests, hosts, does it work best 
practices?
 
1. We are adding VMware servers ESX, into our network.  We are taking physical 
machines, and turning them into VMs.
2. We want to back up the clients (guests) running on them.  (it would be nice 
to be able to leave them up 24/7)
a. I could just install the Legato client on each... plan not to back them up 
all at the same time and cause stress to the ESX server... 
...or...
b. Do something more tricky.  
c. is it possible without downing the client/guest to make a backup of a Live 
machine? 
 
3. I'd like to backup the Host/physical machines, per the Vmware guy this is 
something Vmware Marketing talked about being possible with Networker, but I 
don't know the details.
 
What have you all learned?
 
[You know that you've been on the forums too long when names begin to be very 
familiar :) ]
 
 
 
I'm pulling the below  from 
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=55440&sid=891ac519955253c4f529b59219652f43
 
 
Well, it appears that contrary to the VMWare documentation, you can 
not back up a vmware esx3 vmfs file system with any version of 
networker. According to all of the literature from EMC on this you 
should be able to do it. In reality, you can't and according to VMWare 
support it is not supported. The case has been closed on the VMWare 
side and if there is anything on the Networker front, I'll let you 
know. 

Ken 

On 3/16/07, Ken Gehring <ken.gehring AT gmail DOT com> wrote: 

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