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naltoidaddict
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Backing up guests on nfs

We recently moved a few of our guests to an nfs share and discovered vcb doesn't work with nfs/nas based guests. No biggie, these don't need to be backed up every night but I'd like to get weekly's if possible.

How do people typically back these up when they're on nfs?

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esiebert7625
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There are a couple backup scripts that may help you...

Perl Backup Script for Vmware ESX - vmbk.pl ( free ) - http://www.vmts.net/vmbk.htm

Backup scripts - http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=23 and http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=156

Shell script - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=475244

Perl script - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=70253&start=0&tstart=0

Virtual Infrastructure Scripted Backup Utility (VISBU) - http://www.xtravirt.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=75&func=fileinfo&id=7

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