The VMWare documentation says to backup the following before an ESX upgrade:
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/groups
.vmx files
templates
- How do I back these directories and files up? I have tried vicfg and esxcfg to no avail. I am logged on directly to the host as root so I assume I use Linux commands to backup or copy these directories?
- Obviously I need to backup the files off the ESX system itself which leads to another problem - I can only copy the backup files to a Windows machine. Again, how do I do this? Samba?