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author: Mike La Spina | author: Mike La Spina | ||
==== Description ==== | ==== Description ==== | ||
Some time ago Mike shared some interesting information about VMFS volumes that he found using direct analysis in his blog named [http://blog.laspina.ca/ | Some time ago Mike shared some interesting information about VMFS volumes that he found using direct analysis in his blog named [http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/understanding-vmfs-volumes Understanding VMFS volumes]. | ||
This spawned some discussions on the VMware Community forums and it became apparent that an automated backup of the critical VMFS info could be useful in the event of an undesirable security event that impacts our system availability. | This spawned some discussions on the VMware Community forums and it became apparent that an automated backup of the critical VMFS info could be useful in the event of an undesirable security event that impacts our system availability. | ||
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We simply need to copy an automation script to this location and it will run daily. Or if your change rate is less frequent maybe the /etc/cron.weekly location is more suitable. ... | We simply need to copy an automation script to this location and it will run daily. Or if your change rate is less frequent maybe the /etc/cron.weekly location is more suitable. ... | ||
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[http://blog.laspina.ca/ | [http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/understanding-vmfs-volumes Ubiquitous: Protecting ESX VMFS Stores with Automation] | ||
See also: | See also: | ||
[http://blog.laspina.ca/ | [http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/additional-vmfs-backup-automation-script-features Ubiquitous: Additional VMFS Backup Automation script features] | ||
[[Category: Bash]] [[Category: Forensics]] | [[Category: Bash]] [[Category: Forensics]] | ||