Comments on: ITT Minute – VMWare Server Backup http://kevindevin.com/?p=2468 MY Blog, MY Interests Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:26:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Cd-MaN http://kevindevin.com/?p=2468&cpage=1#comment-22683 Cd-MaN Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:17:54 +0000 http://kevindevin.com/?p=2468#comment-22683 This is only an idea, but I think that this way of backup is unsafe! My reasoning is as follows: because there is no direct interaction between VMWare and the OS / Backup software (something like telling it: flush a consistent state to disk), you can't guarantee that the image you back up will be in a consistent state. Ie. you will be able to get a back-up, only that you might have problems using it later. BTW. the new theme looks great! This is only an idea, but I think that this way of backup is unsafe! My reasoning is as follows: because there is no direct interaction between VMWare and the OS / Backup software (something like telling it: flush a consistent state to disk), you can’t guarantee that the image you back up will be in a consistent state. Ie. you will be able to get a back-up, only that you might have problems using it later.

BTW. the new theme looks great!

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