* Scott Jacobson <SJACOBSO at novell.com> [2006-08-31 09:18]:
> VMWare guru's
> 
> For now we are going with direct Native or Standard Client
> based backups of a Hosts "Guests" (working just fine actually) rather
> that snapshots.
> After scouring both WEB sites, I can only find information about
> "snapshot" based backups for "Guests".
> What I'm looking for are references to the "Hosts" backup,
> specifically, what files need to be backed
> up and used for a restore if I needed to lay down a new OS and then
> restore the files
> necessary that would allow me to then restore those Guests previously
> defined on that Host.

It's pretty straightforward fo the most part.  Essentially you need to
back up the config file for the vm and the vmdks.  Some details that are
important are what version of VMware, planning a schedule to put the
guest in a quite mode so the disk files can be backed up, etc.  You are
basically doing a "normal" backup of the host system.  

Information about specific files will be somewhat dependant on which
VMware product you are using, but the methodology is pretty much the
same.

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com