Boston Linux & UNIX was originally founded in 1994 as part of The Boston Computer Society. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Building E51.

BLU Discuss list archive


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[Discuss] Revisiting VMWare ESX backup options



Separate issue on VMware backups mentioned on today's SANS Internet
Storm Center daily net-sec podcast.
https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=4221
VMWare Change Block Tracking problem may lead to corrupt backups
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2090639

(tl;dr if you extend the size of a disk, you need to drop and
re-enable Changed Block Tracking or you won't get everything. oops.)



BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities.

Valid HTML 4.01! Valid CSS!



Boston Linux & Unix / webmaster@blu.org