VCB - pre-freeze-script.bat and post-thaw-script.bat

[beckhamk]

I want to verify when using VCB, if these scripts exists on the windows vm being backed up using VCB, does vmware/vcb look for those scripts and automatically run whatever commands we have place in them?

[dinny]

Yes,

As long as vmware tools is installed and running on the windows VM - it will check for the existence of these scripts and execute the commands in them, when you do a VCB backup of the VM

Dinny

[beckhamk]

Thanks.. this is quite funny because we have a support ticket open with vmware tech support and the person was telling us that is was up to us to run these commands/bat files manually to help our application from freezing up. lol thanks again

[dinny]

Certainly worth testing that your particular scripts do work when run standalone - and that they are also called via vcb.

What exact type of windows OS are you running?

Is it installed in c:\windows?

They don't use a variable to work it out - lazy eh.. - it's hardcoded as c:\windows.

So if you are running w2000 with a default c:\winnt dir - then they won't work in there ...

You will need to create a new c:\windows dir - and just put those two scripts in it...

Dinny