Hi,
When installing tools in linux client (ubuntu server) I get the following question :
[EXPERIMENTAL] The VMware FileSystem Sync Driver (vmsync) is a new feature that
creates backups of virtual machines. Please refer to the VMware Knowledge Base
for more details on this capability. Do you wish to enable this feature?
[no]
So as I think VSS is a windows feature, then linux may need this to do quisced snapshots ?
The VMWARE documentation says :
Creating quiesced snapshots using the SYNC driver requires waiting for I/O to
drain in the guest operating system. This might affect time‐sensitive applications,
such as DBHammer.
If you do not install the SYNC driver when installing VMware Tools, you can avoid
the delay caused by the I/O draining. However, it results in snapshots being only
crash‐consistent, unless you provide custom quiescing through pre‐backup and
post‐backup scripts in the guest.
So I don't get it, should I or Shouldn't I, compile the vmsync on linux guests?
Thanks
