Backing Up A Virtual Drive

[Shawn Badger]

The easiest way I have found is to just shut the VM down and copy the vmdk
file. You can do the snapshot like John has suggested, but be sure to
remove the snapshot after you are done or you will eventually kill your
performance.




On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:39 AM, John J. Macey <jjmacey at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I run Linux Mint 14 with the Cinnamon Desktop Manager, and back-up my
> system using the KDE utility KBackup. It is a great little app! I've
> started to Virtualize several operating systems e.g. MS$ 7, Whonix-Gateway,
> and Whonix-Desktop. I am using Oracle's VM VMWare to do this. In the future
> I might want to Virtualize Backtrack. I did have a dual-boot Mint /
> Backtrack system going, but then wiped the drive, and started to look at
> Virtualization.
>
> Each one of these Virtual Machines has it own Folder, which can be found
> in the Folder named VirtualBox VMs. Is backing these machines up going to
> be as simple as checking a box when I run KBackup, and save the Folder
> VirtualBox VMs?
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments. Apologizes also, if this is in fact, a
> "no-brainer". LOL!
>
> John*
> ** <http://www.jjmacey.net/blog>*
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