Hi to all.

Currently, my backup routine consists of shutting down all VMs, copy all
their .VDI files to the standby server, and restart the VMs.

The obvious reason is for the standby server to be ready to run the VMs
in case the primary server fails.

A few questions comes to mind:

1) Shutting down and restarting the VMs is always a lot of work, no to
mention the loss of counters, system statistics, etc ... so, is it safe
just to pause the VMs to copy the .VDIs over? Would a paused state .VDI
start ok on the standby server if I need to fire it up?

2) What is the proper procedure to backup via snapshots to a standby
machine that needs to be fully independent of the primary server?

Any experiences or recommendations are gratefully welcomed.

Thanks,

-- 
Mario Lobo
http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br
FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!]

"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, 
because that would also stop you from doing clever things."

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