Hi All,I'm looking at setting up an automated backup schedule for my virtual systems on a headless Virtualbox server which runs on Centos 6.
I would have liked to have been able to: 1. Take a snapshot of a running VM2. Backup the snapshot of that VM in the running state (none of these files would be modified while I backed them up)
3. Copy the backup to a remote location 4. Remove the snapshot I've done some searching and seen some discussion: 1. Snapshots using vboxmanage might not work if the system is running. 2. For some reason this process is flawed... So perhaps I need to: 1. Shutdown the Running VM 2. Wait until the VM has completed shutdown 3. Backup the VM 4. Start the VM 5. Copy the backup to a remote locationHas anyone got a nice little script to do either of these? Is there a nice way to wait until the VM has completed shutdown?
Perhaps some people has comments or time to discuss why the process of using snapshots is flawed, and whether snapshots of running vms work at all...
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