Hi Adam, you are right about the issue with backing up large files- and the vmdk files are hughe. Up to now I decided against this way. Instead I backed up the files from inside the VM *and* backed up all files from the VMs directory but excluded *vmdk files. So I have the configuration files backed up and can easily restore the files within. But your idea with the chunks is a good one, too.
> 1) shutdown the windows VM (or otherwise get the disk image in a > consistent/static state > 2) split the disk image into a series of 100MB "chunks" and save to > another folder > 3) startup the windows VM Can you tell me how you are creating the chunks? I could use "split", but won't BackupPC/ rsync treat them as new files -despite of the same content because of ctime? Do you delete the 100MB chunks after backup? Otherwise it would consume double disk space... Thanks! Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
