I have two virtual box servers. One runs the primary Vm's. I make an
appliance file of each VM to be backed up and copy this file to the backup
Vm server and import the VM. Then I boot the backup VM using the linux
rescue CD. I mount the backup VM's volume in the rescue CD's envirionment
and rsync between the the main and backup VM's.
While this works well, I would rather that virtualbox address some sort of
"warm spare" kind of thing that would back up all the vm's as a group
instead of my cumbersome system.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Peter Ondruška <
[email protected]> wrote:
> This is the way to go:
>
> http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/virtualbox-using-differencing-disks-and.html
> http://blogs.oracle.com/constantin/entry/try_out_virtualbox_on_zfs
>
> http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/sparing-disk-space-with-zfs-clones.html
>
> http://docs.huihoo.com/opensolaris/solaris-zfs-administration-guide/html/ch06s03.html#gbinw
>
> Sorry for not being more specific--I have moved off using Solaris
> since changes introduced by Oracle.
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Pablo Sanchez <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > [ Comments below, in-line ]
> >
> > On Monday, November 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Peter Ondruška penned
> > about Re: [VBox-users] Best way to incrementally backup VirtualBox images
> >
> >> If your host is Solaris with zfs you can use zfs snapshots.
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > I'd suggest you add a bit more to your post in case someone reads your
> > response in the archives. You may wish to list out, at the very
> > least, what is involved. Similar to what Freek just posted.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > ---
> > Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc
> > Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US)
> >
> >
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