backup vmware

[Les Mikesell]

Scott Henson wrote:
>> How can I do the backup???
>>
>>
> I'm going to guess that cpio is your problem.  You might want to add a
> "-H newc" to your cpio command line.  Otherwise use tar as I believe it
> will handle files over 2GB.
> 
> Alternatively, you can tell vmware to split its disks into two gig
> chunks.  Thats a image creation option though, so it may not help you
> here.

Also be sure your vmware clients are shut down for the duration of the 
copy.  The disk images would be corrupted if they changed during the copy.

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   Les Mikesell
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