On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 11:02:21 -0300, you wrote: >On Fri, 05 Apr 2019 01:31:08 +0200 >Kees Nuyt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:19:27 -0300, you wrote: >> >> > Hi; >> > >> > Is it safe to backup a vm's .VDI while the vm is paused? >> >> No. The .VDIs of a VM does not contain the machine state, just >> the disk image. And after just a puase that may not be complete >> (unflushed buffers etc.). The machine state is in memory at that >> moment. >> >> If you want to backup the state of a running VM, you can try to >> perform this procedure: >> >> 1) Stop the VM, saving its state >> VBoxManage controlvm <vm> savestate >> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#vboxmanage-controlvm >> >> 2) Backup all files related to the machine, not just the VDIs, >> also any snapshots and other state information. >> I don't know from the top of my head which files those are. >> >> 3) Start the machine from its saved state. >> VBoxManage startvm ... >> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#vboxmanage-startvm >> >> If your machine is broken nad needs a restore: >> >> 4) power the VM off. >> >> 5) Restore all files from the backup in step 2) >> >> 6) Start the machine from its saved state (as restored). >> same as step 3) >> >> >> > Will the backedup .VDI start normally if I need to use it? >> >> It might, if it is able to recover from the inconsistencies. >> >> >> > Thanks, >> >> HTH >> > > Hi Kees; > > First, thanks for the reply and sorry for the delay.
My pleasure, no problem. > I decided to simply acpishutdown the vms before backup. The powered off > state is the default, so this way, I can simply copy the .VDI back if > needed. That's an excellent solution. -- Regards, Kees Nuyt _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
