On 09/10 11:02 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> You'll almost certainly end up with an unusable copy if you let the VM 
> run while copying


To test this, some years ago I actually tried archiving and restoring a
vmware disk image while it was in use. Turns out it worked just fine.
That said, the vmware session was not in active use at the time and I
certainly wouldn't trust this to not give thoroughly corrupt data.

You may be able to get away with it occasionally; but on any system in
production the amount of disk activity will likely corrupt your backup. 

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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