Pre-Freeze and Post-Thaw script file types?

[jonsilver]

in the documentation it mentions that for windows, VMware will execute all of the scripts in c:\Program Files\VMware\VMwareTools\backupScipts.d

or  /usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script

I assume  /usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script is a file name and not a diretcory, (can someone verify?)

for c"\....\backupScripts.d  -  what are the allowable file types in this directory? will VMware just try to execute all files in this directory so exe, vbs, bat are all ok?

thanks,

jonathan

[FL0G]

/usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script and /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script are files, not directories.

I wrote a article about Linux freeze Scripts with further information about:

http://www.virten.net/2012/05/filesystem-consistent-linux-backups-with-vmware/

You can't put executables inside the Windows Script directory, only scripts. And i havn't heard of .vbs scripts, only .bat Files.

Please also have a look at this KB article to check where the scripts should be located depending on the ESX version:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006671

[jonsilver]

thanks