Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mike Bydalek > <mbyda...@compunetconsulting.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > I think the OP understands that the first backup would be the whole > virtual disk file, what he's asking is will subsequent incremental > backups be a diff of the first. > > Richard >
The answer here is (assuming an rsync transfer method) the difference will be transfered, but a separate copy of the whole image will be stored. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
