Backup of ESX host

[here4now]

I am looking for information on how and/or if possible to backup a ESX host.

Presently our enviroment is.

11 ESX host running 3i, 153875

1 VC 2.5.0 147633

Our backup software is Backupexec 12.5.

I am not looking to backup the Vm's as they are handled by BackupExec. This is required because of RAW volume attached to the VM's.

I am more concerned about the host configuration and re-creating that is a DR if needed..

anything anyone could add would be great.

[HenrikElm]

Use the Remote CLI and run this command

esxcfg-cfgbackup.pl --server hostname.your.domain -s filename-for-backup

It will export your ESXi config to a file. Use same command but with -l to load the config onto the host again.

Please award points if this helped you.

/Henrik

[danpalacios]

I believe you can use backupexec to collect the "system" partition. There are also scripts for auto deployment of ESX which you could use to deploy/redeploy in leiu of a backup/restore

[here4now]

I am guessing that the script

esxcfg-cfgbackup.pl --server hostname.your.domain -s filename-for-backup

is a one time deal or can it be a script file called from a schduled task to run??

[HenrikElm]

As it is a windows command i guess you could schedule it? I have personally only used it as a one time event.

[here4now]

not going to happen is windows..

I'm guessing this cmd is running thru the VI toolkit for windows??

[HenrikElm]

Yes

[here4now]

Now just to learn the toolkit... lol..