Originally Posted by
Beothuk
i think the problem is to make all operating system to understand the vmfs file system. in linux the utility called vmfs-tool don’t understand the vmfs v3.x. afaik,so as per today it don’t support the esxi v5 format yet . there is no pre build support for what you are intending to do but you can script the formation of a snapshot, take it online and mount it on the linux server. the advantage is you will able to get the vmfs files. vmdks, vmx, log files, etc but the down fall is no differential backup so you might use the linux bue agent to backup the files at that point. and after finished , script the unmount and snapshot deletion to clean things up
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