backup vmware

[roland]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:45:19 +0100, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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.
>
Would it be ok to exports some dirs in the clients and mount them in the  
main partition, who takes the backup?
-- 
Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba