[Off topic] Re: Backing Up VMWare

[Duncan Booth]

Franck Pommereau wrote:

>> Hello - has anyone written a Python script to backup VMWare servers?
>> If so, I'd appreciate any pointers as to how to go about doing so.
> 
> Nothing to do with Python, but... Under Linux, VMware disks are
> mountable using the script vmware-mount.pl, see:
> 
>   http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/loopback_linux.html
> 
and for windows users DiskMount (http://www.vmware.com/download/ws/) does a 
similar job (but you cannot mount a suspended machine so you would have to 
shut it down first).

I guess though you want something which runs inside the virtual machine to 
backup just the files which have changed to a networked drive on the host 
machine or a CD/DVD drive?