Thank you for your reply Andre. I'm going to try this right away.

Do you have it working?!? Or do you say this because you think it should work?!?
It should work, and I don't understand why it doesn't, but you did not say you have it working.....

Thanks again

Ok, i give up. It does NOT WORK.

We've been trying all morning and it is not possible. You can install RSYNC deamon and it'll even reply if you ak it for its modules but it is NOT possible to copy ANYTHING from or to it.

~ # rsync -avz -P 192.168.10.221::traspas/ /test/
receiving incremental file list

And here it stays.
If you interrupt the command after you're tired of waiting it shows:

~ # rsync -avz -P 192.168.10.221::traspas/ /test/
receiving incremental file list
rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(541) http://generator=3.0.3
~ #
~ # rsync error: received SIGUSR1 (code 19) at main.c(1286) http://receiver=3.0.3

On the <ALT><F12> screen shows the error:

CPU0:52677 WARNING: UserSocketInet: 8: Current cartel does not own socket 0x6884550 {117592104}
CPU0:52677 WARNING: Userobj: 2438: Error 195887299

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I'm going to use a NFS share in the middle. A NFS share mounts in the /vmfs/volumes and you can RSYNC between folders
for example: "rsync -avz /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/SERVER1/ /vmfs/volumes/NFS@PC-JOHN"

Might even have the NFS share inside one of the "virtual machine management XP's" I have on every ESXI server. Should copy quite fast.

How to set up NFS for Windows:
http://www.sohoadvisers.com/tutorials/vmware-esxi/connect-esxi-to-windows-nfs

How to mount NFS shares from the command line:
esxcfg-nas -a -o PC-JOHN -s /NFS NFS@PC-JOHN
see http://puluka.com/home/index.php?id=67

I hope nobody loses as much time again as me....

Richard.

Hi DStavert,

No offence, but I suppose you don't understand my situation completely.

We work with small clients. Mainly 1 server (Win2k3) and 5 to 20 clients(XP-Pro).
Understanding the advantages (mainly reduced downtime in case of failure) we've started with VMWARE-ESXI.

My setup is 2 ESXI servers. I have 1 that is hosting the windows server and one who has a backup copy.
Overnight I'm going to copy the changes that were made during the day.

I'm going to use a Windows XP as a NFS share to TEMPORARILY copy the VM from the main ESXI and then copy it to the backup ESXI.

Do you see any reliability problems with this setup?!?

Btw, the extra deamons that are running is only SSH and I experimented with RSYNC, nothing more....

Kind greetings, Richard.