Be careful doing direct backups of a recently shut down guest in ESX. The clone / backup etc tools are there for a reason and the cli is not designed to be safe for direct file access like that.
-Blake On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > Similar issues with other programs have (in windows) required a reboot. > Otherwise, try using a different VMware guest image, then shut it down. > Then you might be able to get the backup of the first VMware guest image. > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Grrrrr. >> >> Trying to make a tar backup of a VMware guest. I've done this several >> times before. Shut down the guest, login to the esxi server via ssh and tar >> up the guest directories. >> >> Except this time its barking at me that files are in use! lsof shows all >> manner of stuff! WTF?? Off no longer means off?? >> >> Howard >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > -- >><> ... Jack > > "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 > "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - > Henry J. Tillman > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > Albert Einstein > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral > Grace Hopper, USN > "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - " - > http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 > "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin Terma > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
