Mike Bydalek <mbyda...@compunetconsulting.com> wrote on 02/19/2010 12:39:29 PM:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, John Moorhouse > <john.moorho...@3jays.me.uk> wrote: > > I'm happily using backupPC to backup a number of machine within > our home network, I'm wondering what will happen if I use it to > backup the file on the host machine that is the virtual disc for a > number of virtual box VM, will it have to backup the whole file each > run (they are rather large) or is it capable of only copying those > bits of the file that have changed ? > > > > Basically I'm after suggestions of 'best practice' in this situation > > An image is exactly that, a binary image. The best thing would be use > BackupPC to connect to the actually Virtual Host and back that up. Actually, there is plenty of reason to do both: use BackupPC to back up at the guest level (so that I can restore a (e.g.) single file), *and* to back up the VM images (so that I can rapidly recover from a disaster). There is no "best": they're both very valuable. Of course, I only keep a *couple* of copies of VM images around (they take too much space!), but the pooling of BackupPC allows me to keep many months worth of backups around... Tim Massey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
