Le 16/01/2012 19:04, jdd a écrit :

> I had the feeling than this was supported, but read the VboxManage
> manual is sometime hard :-)

online manual:

"Finally, if you took a snapshot while the machine was running, the 
memory state of the machine is also saved in the snapshot (the same 
way the memory can be saved when you close the VM window). When you 
restore such a snapshot, execution resumes at exactly the point when 
the snapshot was taken."

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#idp7737088

still to explore what have to be backed to allow restoring

clone

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#clone

is not allowed on a running machine

I beg export  can neither be done on a running machine
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#clone

a fast and reliable way could be to

* stop the machine
* make it immutable
* restart it
* backup the immutable part

We all know how difficult it is to backup a running machine - well the 
backup is easy, restoring is not :-(

but any operation involving the copy of tha vrtual hard drive can take 
very long (servers can be many Gb  large), and even more if the backup 
is not on the local machine, so it's not practical to stop the server 
completely for backup.

But the described system (immutable) seems pretty fast, as the copy 
come later.

teleporting
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#teleporting

may be the final solution, but I yet have to read this twice :-)

jdd

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