2016-12-12, 10:52:40
I've looked into how one might perform live backups with VMware but my search has led me to believe that this isn't supported with Fusion, at least officially. As far as I can see it takes a few steps to do a live backup with VMware:
1. Snapshot the VM with a special option to quiesce IO (ensure all IO is flushed out) on the root disk image.
2. Copy the whole VM and the root disk, leaving out the snapshot
3. Tidy up, consolidating the snapshot
This may be wrong; a lot of what I read was a bit vague.
My first question is: I got the impression that quiesced snapshots weren't supported in Fusion; this seems like the biggest problem.
My second question is: what API are you using to interface with VMware.
1. Snapshot the VM with a special option to quiesce IO (ensure all IO is flushed out) on the root disk image.
2. Copy the whole VM and the root disk, leaving out the snapshot
3. Tidy up, consolidating the snapshot
This may be wrong; a lot of what I read was a bit vague.
My first question is: I got the impression that quiesced snapshots weren't supported in Fusion; this seems like the biggest problem.
My second question is: what API are you using to interface with VMware.