The subject of backing up ESX hosts for disaster recovery comes up from time to time, but not nearly as often as backing up the virtual machines. To be specific, I am talking about backing up the ESX Service Console. Honesty, to reinstall ESX takes such little time there is really no need to keep a full system backup for recovery. There is an advantage to saving key configuration files and folders to quickly re-apply after a re- installation, however. This can be done without installing a backup agent on the ESX Service Console.

This post provides information on what ESX Service Console files and directories to backup, how to use the tar command to create a backup file, and then how to restore from the backup file after a new installation. The material comes from one of the VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) toolkit documents that I often use for customer documentation deliverables. To give credit where credit is due, the author of the document is listed as "VMware PSO - Practice Development".

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, How to Backup VMware ESX Servers | VM /ETC

 

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