NBU can use VCB (Vmware Consolidated Backup) to do backups of VM's. This does 
allow a VM to be running whilst in the process of being backed up.

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Just curious about this backup - does it allow you to backup a vm while it is 
running?

I am new to this so, please go easy on me.

Thanks for understanding...

thomas


Crowey wrote:
> 
> Harpreet SINGH wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > We are going to implement backup's for  VMWare ESX and VMWare ESXi. As
> > of now we have only experience on Solaris/Linux backup only.
> > 
> > Please help to share your experience in.
> > 
> > 1. Implementation
> > 2. Day to day task
> > 3. backup and re-store procedure
> > 4. Trouble shooting and more..........
> > 
> 
> I can't comment on your specific version, we run 6.0MP4, but we use a three 
> pronged approach.
> 
> 1.  We backup the ESX hosts themselves with the standard NetBackup client.
> 
> 2.  We backup VM Guests as if they were on physical hardware, that is by 
> using the appropriate NetBackup client.
> 
> 3.  We also backup the VM Guest vmdk files using vmbk 
> (http://www.vmts.net/vmbk3.htm) - which is an excellent freeware backup tool.
> 
> We've so far found this to be extremely robust (though I've rarely been 
> called upon to restore anything via methods 1 or 3) and effective.


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