Exactly what we do.

It's very easy to start a "default base instance" and overwrite it with
a restore.
Easier than recovering a physical machine.

We do, however, back up the physical server, excluding the image files,
so that we may be able to restore the physical machine, if it were to go
down.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
> Sent: May 25, 2005 5:02 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up VMWare - best practices
> 
> 
> We don't actually backup the ESX server and the image files - we just 
> backup the VMs as if they were real servers, using the client 
> licences. To 
> restore, we would create a new VM and overwrite it from the backup.
>