Thanks everyone. Has anybody got rdiff-backup working by any chance? Will it work?
- Tod On 11/14/2011 10:15 AM, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
