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I just put up an experimental release of VMBackup (2.92). This version adds support for VMware Server 2.0 to the GUI backup utility.

The new version is available on the download page

Documentation can be found on the documentation page

I just put up an experimental release of VMBackup.  This version is considered experimental because it has significant changes and has not been fully tested.  If you break it you may keep both pieces.

The changes in this version are:

• Fix to the logging code to work correctly if the log directory doesn’t exist.  Hopefully this will fix the backup gui so it will work under SuSE Linux.
• Added partial support for cold and LVM backups of VirtualBox Virtual machines via the command line and GUI.  Only tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 formats are supported for backups of VirtualBox VMs.  (Note the vmrestore utiltiy does not understand Virtual Box Virtual Machines yet)
• Some code was added to support backing up VMWare Virtual Machines with vmdks in multiple locations (this is not complete however)
• Added some fixes to support configurations in which more than one piece of Virtualization software is installed (tested on a system with both VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox running).
• Added a header to the archives so the vmrestore utility doesn’t need to guess the Virtual Machine type in order to support conversions in the future.

The new version is available on the download page

Documentation can be found on the documentation page

This version just fixes bugs and does not add any features.

The changes for this version are:

• Fix to the Linux LVM backup code to work even if the Volume group is not the last one listed in the df command output.
• Code changes to make vmbackup work correctly with vmware fusion. Hopefully this is all the code needed to support fusion properly. However, the code relies on applescript code that the packaging scripts aren’t packaging properly, so vmware fusion backups are closer to working but not quite there yet. Command line restores on mac osx should work fine but haven’t been tested yet.
• Changes to vmrestore.gui to give more information in the virtual machine list
• Changes to make backups work better under vmware workstation when it is not being run as the root user.
• Made suspend/resume during lvm backups an option. The suspend/resume causes a very short service interruption and the resulting state is not useful if the restore is done to a system with a CPU that isn’t compatible with the CPU of the system that did the backup.

The new release is available on the download page