sc302 Veteran Posted March 21, 2012 Veteran Share Posted March 21, 2012 yes however 1 320GB is $200...How much is a terrabyte drive? $120? You could get internal drives with a dock, dock costs 50 bux. http://www.amazon.co...E/dp/B001IOPIRM i would look at a 510 or 515 to give you plenty of drive space. You can't exactly copy the vmdk while it is in use, at least not to my knowledge you can. It is an open database file. A snapshot is not the same. You cannot do a full restore with a snapshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graimer Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 yes however 1 320GB is $200...How much is a terrabyte drive? $120? true. just order some mybooks or whatever. but does the backup strategy sound about right? ghettovcb to make snapshot backups of the servers, enable ftp or something on the esxi to connect to using a desktop, download the backups and put on the external hdds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted March 21, 2012 Veteran Share Posted March 21, 2012 You can't exactly copy the vmdk while it is in use, at least not to my knowledge you can. It is an open database file. A snapshot is not the same. You cannot do a full restore with a snapshot. You would need some sort of utility (3rd party) to be able to do it. Or upgrade to vcenter server. http://www.vmware.com/products/data-recovery/overview.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graimer Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10595 seems like it's possible to restore from snapshot backups :s did I misunderstand it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted March 21, 2012 Veteran Share Posted March 21, 2012 it is not a built in utility and it is a third party tool. built in requires a paid for license. the download page is not a vmware site https://github.com/lamw/ghettoVCB/downloads so yes it can be done with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graimer Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 it is not a built in utility and it is a third party tool. built in requires a paid for license. the download page is not a vmware site https://github.com/l...toVCB/downloads so yes it can be done with that. I know. For a small company like this, I assume 3rd party would be okey if it's stable and don't have the biggest costs assosiated to it. With this, we'll be able to backup the server os when it's configuration is changed, and important data regulary :) So if it works, and is cheap. Then it sounds good to me :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted March 21, 2012 Veteran Share Posted March 21, 2012 that will be fine. Graimer 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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