On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:19:27 -0300, you wrote: > Hi; > > Is it safe to backup a vm's .VDI while the vm is paused?
No. The .VDIs of a VM does not contain the machine state, just the disk image. And after just a puase that may not be complete (unflushed buffers etc.). The machine state is in memory at that moment. If you want to backup the state of a running VM, you can try to perform this procedure: 1) Stop the VM, saving its state VBoxManage controlvm <vm> savestate https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#vboxmanage-controlvm 2) Backup all files related to the machine, not just the VDIs, also any snapshots and other state information. I don't know from the top of my head which files those are. 3) Start the machine from its saved state. VBoxManage startvm ... https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#vboxmanage-startvm If your machine is broken nad needs a restore: 4) power the VM off. 5) Restore all files from the backup in step 2) 6) Start the machine from its saved state (as restored). same as step 3) > Will the backedup .VDI start normally if I need to use it? It might, if it is able to recover from the inconsistencies. > Thanks, HTH -- Regards, Kees Nuyt _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
