Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote on 02/19/2010 02:04:49 PM: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mike Bydalek > <mbyda...@compunetconsulting.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, John Moorhouse > > <john.moorho...@3jays.me.uk> wrote: > >> I'm happily using backupPC to backup a number of machine within > our home network, I'm wondering what will happen if I use it to > backup the file on the host machine that is the virtual disc for a > number of virtual box VM, will it have to backup the whole file each > run (they are rather large) or is it capable of only copying those > bits of the file that have changed ? > >> > >> Basically I'm after suggestions of 'best practice' in this situation > > > > An image is exactly that, a binary image. The best thing would be use > > BackupPC to connect to the actually Virtual Host and back that up. > > I think the OP understands that the first backup would be the whole > virtual disk file, what he's asking is will subsequent incremental > backups be a diff of the first.
And that was answered in a different e-mail. The transfer over the wire will be diffs (assuming rsync); the file saved on the server will be a complete copy. Tim Masey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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/
