On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:50:13 -0700
Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote:
 
> I would say that the vbox snapshots are not the path you want to take 
> for backups.  VBox snapshots are great when experimenting with software, 
> or creating a library using a base images.  If you do a VBox snapshot 
> online, then you also have a .sav file, and you have to wait for the 
> save/resume to complete before it can come back online.  If you can 
> afford downtime, then I would power off the VM to get a consistent state 
> of your data.
> 
> Other people may be able to chime in here, but if you looking at using 
> it for backups, then pausing the machine, and using LVM may be something 
> that works, because after you take the backup, you delete the lvm 
> snapshot. You will need to delete the backup though because LVM doesn't 
> scale well for snapshots.  In the past I used LVM and raw disks to do this.
> 
> Geoff

Hm, but your script does suspend/resume the vm, too. I cannot see a big
difference to a vm snapshot ... ?


-- 
Regards,
Stephan


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