Well, it appears that contrary to the VMWare documentation, you can
not back up a vmware esx3 vmfs file system with any version of
networker. According to all of the literature from EMC on this you
should be able to do it. In reality, you can't and according to VMWare
support it is not supported. The case has been closed on the VMWare
side and if there is anything on the Networker front, I'll let you
know.

Ken

On 3/16/07, Ken Gehring <ken.gehring AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

Well here is a bit of an update. It appears that the only way
(contrary to what VMWare says) to back up a vmware ESX 3 instance is
to use vcbMounter to create a snapshot to a non vmfs volume. In
otherwords, you had best have a LOT of disk and a LOT of time to
backup you instances.
Backup of anything on a vmfsfile system produces a lot of the
following type of messages for me (with Networker 7.3.2 jumbo).

* trasrv131:/vmfs/volumes/LUN00/vmwsrv21-snap save: Warning inode
number changed for
/vmfs/volumes/45e5930b-6c2d3342-5cd0-001517157ab2/vmwsrv21-snap/scsi0-0-0-vmwsrv21-s010.vmdk
may not be recoverable

I still have 2 cases open with vmware on this so there may be some
resolution coming.

Ken

On 3/15/07, Dag Nygren <dag AT newtech DOT fi> wrote:
> > Only one word to describe why,
> >
> > Lazy ;-)
> >
> > (recover was my next choice to look at)
>
> Directed recovery will give you he GUI  and will not need X-window
> capabilities of the target.
>
> Best
> Dag
>
>


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