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Originally Posted by windependence
What are you using to snapshot the servers?
I have several servers in VMs and I want to take snapshots of them and use the snapshots of the VMs for backup. Will this work? Since VMs are just directories, I have them all under /vm and then each one has it's own directory under that like /vm/server1 etc. I would like to be able to take a hot backup of the servers using snapshots and move them to another machine later since transfer is slow even on gigabit ethernet. What are your thougts on this?
-Tim
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I have a similar setup and use tar.gz from host system on the vm directories. That's essentially a "full" backup of the system. No need to use network resources when what you're trying to back up is on the same system. You can then send the files from the host system somewhere else if necessary.