If you use VMware in virtually any of its flavors, then you've probably become familiar with the list of files created in each folder you create for a virtual machine. Those files are used by the ...

Are you talking about doing this within the VM or from the hypervisor layer? If doing this from the hypervisor you will still be backing up the whole VM file, so I don't see this buying you anything.

After reading my article "Backing Up Live Virtual Server VMs," a couple of administrators asked me if it was possible to back up individual files or folders inside a running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 ...

I am not able to figure out what vmkfstools wants for the path. I'm fairly confident that if I could trace what has this file open and rectify it, then I could repeat the process on other problematic ...