[ Comments below, in-line ] On Friday, November 11, 2011 at 03:04 PM, Tod Thomas penned about [VBox-users] Best way to incrementally backup VirtualBox images
> After googling around I see there's a lot written about this but I > didn't find a definitive solution posted anywhere. Is there a tried > and true method someone can point me to? Hi Tod, I see no one has responded to your post. Let me take a stab. First, you can always look for (Guest) O/S specific backup solutions. Your restore solution would be to re-create the environment and apply the backup. An alternative, which may not work at all! :), is to use Virtualbox's snapshot capability and save the snapshots. Similar to a database's log. This probably won't work unless you're able to determine how VirtualBox ensures a snapshot isn't played against another VM. It may be as simple as its GUID. Your restore might be to create a new VM and set its GUID to the previous VM. I'm not sure it's possible but it's something to try. The other possibility is to `rsync' the .VDI. Restoring would be to copy the .VDI back to the source. Again, the GUID may be tied to the .VDI so if you re-create the VM, you'll need to ensure its GUID reflects the original. The above are my ideas and some of them are extremely raw (as in, half-baked) but it may give you some direction (to avoid? :) to experiment. Cheers, --- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
