backing up vcentre (or vcenter) and host changing

[pjbryant]

Advice is to backup the vcentre/vcenter box directly from its host. however in a load balanced situation, the VM may change host.

obviously you can create a job per host but this leaves some problems:
* the jobs on the wrong host will fail (OK, but the error messages are not meaningful
* the backup folder locations will alter according to the job that succeeds thus duplicating the reverse incremental copies
* you could remap the backup storage manually, but then you might as well run the job entirely manually.

Any experiences of chasing the VC box around the cluster for a regular backup? In this situation the backup is reverse incrementals to an external USB ready for offsite storage...

Or have I missed something really obvious

[Vitaliy S.]

We have an existing discussion of this problem in the PowerShell sub-forum, please check it out: HOWTO: Backing up vCenter host issues

[pjbryant]

Thanks Vitaliy, my search terms didn't find that one. Will start playing soon...