Re: [Nolug] VirtualBox on Linux

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 08:55:49AM -0500, Joey Kelly wrote:
> On Thursday 11 August 2011 07:11, Gilberto Martins wrote:
>> Can any of you who work with VB or Xen suggest a good Backup solution for
>> virtualized systems ?
>
> I guess there are 2 approaches... either consider the VPS a real server and
> back up normal stuff like /etc and whatnot, or take image snapshots and
> archive them. rsync works great for the first option. Maybe someone else can
> chime in about image snapshots.

We concluded the same 2 things here, where we use VMs extensively for
developing and testing.

Checking pointing is greate for "going back" - in a time machine sort
of way. Rsync is good for backing up data.

Brett

>
> --Joey
>
>>
>> Gilberto Martins
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Mischa D. Krilov <rossum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I know there's a pro for-pay VirtualBox component. I don't recall what it
>>> gets you.
>>>
>>> I know that the VMware converter will generate a VM from a live system,
>>> and there are hoops to convert to a VirtualBox machine.
>>>
>>> Mischa
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