Re: backing up VirtualBox

2009-07-08 Thread der.hans
Am 01. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Joseph Sinclair so: moin moin, der.hans wrote: Am 19. Jun, 2009 schw???tzte Joseph Sinclair so: Sorry for the delayed response. Been barely keeping up with mtg plans. I assume you're using VDI disk images for the Virtual Machines. If you're using write-through di

Re: backing up VirtualBox

2009-07-01 Thread Joseph Sinclair
der.hans wrote: > Am 19. Jun, 2009 schw�tzte Joseph Sinclair so: > > Sorry for the delayed response. Been barely keeping up with mtg plans. > >> I assume you're using VDI disk images for the Virtual Machines. If >> you're using write-through disks it gets a LOT harder. >> >> With VDI disks: >> >

Re: backing up VirtualBox

2009-07-01 Thread der.hans
Am 19. Jun, 2009 schwätzte Joseph Sinclair so: Sorry for the delayed response. Been barely keeping up with mtg plans. I assume you're using VDI disk images for the Virtual Machines. If you're using write-through disks it gets a LOT harder. With VDI disks: VBoxManage snapshot take backup-$(

Re: backing up VirtualBox

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I assume you're using VDI disk images for the Virtual Machines. If you're using write-through disks it gets a LOT harder. With VDI disks: VBoxManage snapshot take backup-$(date +%Y%M%DT%H%m%s) --description "backup for $(date +'%Y-%M-%DT%H:%m:%s %z')" Then backup the newly created snapshot V

Re: backing up VirtualBox

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen
This is a great puzzle that I also am working on Bad way is running the backup from inside the server Good way would be from the vdisks directly On 6/19/09, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > what are good ways to implement backups of VirtualBox VMen? > > I'm mostly worried about the active ser

backing up VirtualBox

2009-06-19 Thread der.hans
moin moin, what are good ways to implement backups of VirtualBox VMen? I'm mostly worried about the active servers. We need to be able to do bare metal recovery in order to get the servces back up as well as getting incremental changes. We will also have some development VMen, but they're not th