Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ESX3
2008-03-21 16:22:25
The Virtual Machines are stored on a VMFS (Virtual Machine
File System) which Netbackup doesn't understand. Its a proprietary format
developed by VMWare for use in ESX Server (its got advanced capabilities like
journaling.) To backup Virtual Machines via the .vmdk you need to use
their consolidated backup piece and be running 6.5 on a server which can mount
the storage. (SAN only I think, I don't think Consolidated Backup supports
iSCSI.) Alternately (if you are not using shared storage) you can use the
built in tools on the ESX server to "export" the virtual machines to an ext3
partition that the client can read.
-Jonathan
I have a growing VMware ESX farm and
have deployed NBU 6 agent on the COS of ESX. When I do a full backup I don’t
seem to get the VMDK files of the Virtual Machines. What am I doing
wrong?
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