Backing Up VMWare

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Hello - has anyone written a Python script to backup VMWare servers?
If so, I'd appreciate any pointers as to how to go about doing so.
Thanks.

[Franck Pommereau]

[Off topic] Re: Backing Up VMWare

> Hello - has anyone written a Python script to backup VMWare servers?[color=blue]
> If so, I'd appreciate any pointers as to how to go about doing so.[/color]

Nothing to do with Python, but... Under Linux, VMware disks are
mountable using the script vmware-mount.pl, see:

http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/loopback_linux.html

Franck

[Duncan Booth]

Re: [Off topic] Re: Backing Up VMWare

Franck Pommereau wrote:
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>> Hello - has anyone written a Python script to backup VMWare servers?
>> If so, I'd appreciate any pointers as to how to go about doing so.[/color]
>
> Nothing to do with Python, but... Under Linux, VMware disks are
> mountable using the script vmware-mount.pl, see:
>
> http://www.vmware.com/support/refere...ack_linux.html
>[/color]
and for windows users DiskMount (http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/) does a
similar job (but you cannot mount a suspended machine so you would have to
shut it down first).

I guess though you want something which runs inside the virtual machine to
backup just the files which have changed to a networked drive on the host
machine or a CD/DVD drive?