howto copy files on esxi datastore using scp?

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Published on 2010-04-20T09:07:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 9:43 UTC
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how to copy files on esxi4 datastore (fs=vmfs) over network using console (SSH)?

giving up older question:have seen on vmware forums that its not possible have a USB drive NTFS attached to ESXi4 host. fdisk -l shows the device as /dev/mpx.... but when i try to mount that using mount /dev/xxx /mnt/usbdisk....it fails with message "no such file or dir"

could anyone help with correct entry in etc/fstab?

all that i am trying to do is backup the vms on esxi host to usb disk...thanks in advance

there is a dir called usbdrv, tried cp of vmdk file here but failed

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