What do I need to do to establish backup of ESXi 3.5 or 4 server? It is my understanding that the server runs Linux, so as far as I understand the backup sequence should be:
- create a snapshot of VM
- copy files to a backup location
- delete snapshot
I could probably write a script to create/delete snapshot. Is there cron on ESXi to schedule backup jobs? And another question: I assume there is no rsync or rdiff-backup pre-installed on ESXi. Are there existing pre-compiled binaries known to work with ESXi?
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Here is an article that describes the configuration and has scripts that you can use to perform a back of ESXi 3.5 and 4.0. I haven't deployed this myself but it is on my todo list to possibly setup.
At the moment I am just running backups within the guests.