[Box Backup] Virtual Machine backup

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Dave,

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Dave Bamford wrote:

> Has anyone on the list had experience using box to backup a virtual 
> machine at the hypervisor level. There are some commercial products out 
> there but all very expensive.
>
> I have a server running Vmware ESXi and am using a script ghettoVCB.sh 
> to copy the vm to a NFS drive on another machine but ideally need to 
> backup to offsite. The files in a VM are very big but I would guess they 
> compress well.
>
> Ideally box should run at the hypervisor level but there are no tools to 
> compile at this level. I can get ssh access and get to an ash shell. 
> uname -a reports VMKernel.

Box Backup is designed to compile in pretty minimal environments. You may 
be able to cross-compile for the hypervisor environment by setting 
"LDFLAGS=-static" at configure time when building on a machine with a 
build environment where you can compile Box Backup normally.

Cheers, Chris.
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