Re: Backup of OpenBSD under VMware

On 30.06.18 14:23, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the scenario is a cluster of ESXi nodes on which OpenBSD should run as a VM.
>
> Currently the cluster is being backed up by Veeam, I tried to insert th
> obsd VM inside the backup job but no success, with following "Error: An
> error occurred while saving the snapshot: Failed to quiesce the virtual
> machine.". This looks strange to me because the open-vm-tools implemented
> inside the kernel are usually functional to ESXi hosts.
>
> Questions:
> 1. has anybody found a way to use Veeam to backup OpenBSD VMs?
> 2. are there any other suggested softwares to perform a similar task?
>
> Thanks

At $dayjob I use dump(8) and store the files on a Windows file server we
use to store backup files. Then we run Veeam to backup the file server.
The file server is used by my colleagues from the DBA team too to store
database backups on it.

Cheers,
Bruno