[Clonezilla-live] VMFS backup with Clonezilla

[Steve Poe]

Has anyone tried backing up their VMWare ESX/ESXi server using Clonezilla?

Is it possible to use Clonezilla to backup the VMWare ESX/ESXi server and restore it on a larger storage and resize proportionally?

Thanks.

Steve



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Post by Steve Poe
Has anyone tried backing up their VMWare ESX/ESXi server using Clonezilla?
Is it possible to use Clonezilla to backup the VMWare ESX/ESXi server
and restore it on a larger storage and resize proportionally?

Not really. Clonezilla can backup and restore the VMWare ESX/ESXi
server, but it won't resize the file system. Unless you know a tool to
resize the file system, like resize2fs to ext2/3/4.

Steven.

Post by Steve Poe
Thanks.
Steve
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[Steve Poe]

Trying Clonezilla 1.2.5-17 did not properly for backup/restore VMFS. The backup and restore process seems to go well, but the partition schema does not match nor is there any matching data in the VMFS partition. Unfortunately, there are no mount.vmfs tools in Clonezilla to actually see if I can mount the partition. Yet, the new ESXI server box does boot but does not retain any information from what was believed to be backup.

Steve


From: Steven Shiau [mailto:***@nchc.org.tw]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [Clonezilla-live] VMFS backup with Clonezilla



On 2010幎07月23日 05:35, Steve Poe wrote:

Has anyone tried backing up their VMWare ESX/ESXi server using Clonezilla?

Is it possible to use Clonezilla to backup the VMWare ESX/ESXi server and restore it on a larger storage and resize proportionally?
Not really. Clonezilla can backup and restore the VMWare ESX/ESXi server, but it won't resize the file system. Unless you know a tool to resize the file system, like resize2fs to ext2/3/4.

Steven.


Thanks.

Steve



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