[BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

I have BackupPC up and running in our production environment, and so far I am happy with it. The environment consists of Linux/Centos boxes exclusively, however on one of the boxes a VM runs which is a Windows 2012 (web) server. Currently I have BackupPC set to simply backup the entire direct

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

Hello: On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 01:00:05PM -0700, xpac wrote: > I have BackupPC up and running in our production environment, and so > far I am happy with it. The environment consists of Linux/Centos > boxes exclusively, however on one of the boxes a VM runs which is a > Windows 2012 (web) server.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

On 29/10/14 07:00, xpac wrote: > I have BackupPC up and running in our production environment, and so far I am > happy with it. The environment consists of Linux/Centos boxes exclusively, > however on one of the boxes a VM runs which is a Windows 2012 (web) server. > > Currently I have BackupPC

[BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

Thanks for the ideas, I'll go through the forum looking for info on VSS. Unfortunately its a web server and as we're now expanding into other countries, stopping the VM/server to do a backup probably isn't going to fly but I'll look at some of the other options you two have provided. +

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

xpac wrote: > I have BackupPC up and running in our production environment, and so far I am > happy with it. The environment consists of Linux/Centos boxes exclusively, > however on one of the boxes a VM runs which is a Windows 2012 (web) server. > > Currently I have BackupPC set to simply backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

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 back

Re: [BackupPC-users] Best practice/s for backing up a VM??

Am 28. Oktober 2014 21:46:26 schrieb Adam Goryachev : > On 29/10/14 07:00, xpac wrote: > > Currently I have BackupPC set to simply backup the entire directory which > contains the .vmsd, .vmx, .vmdk, etc files. > > > > Is there a "better"/recommended/best practices way to do this that is >