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What"s the best way to "back up" a Virtual Machine OS?

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 05/07/2006
From: "Spin" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Gurus,

What's the best way to "back up" a Virtual Machine OS? Would it be a script
that shuts down the VM nightly and say, copies off the associated .vhd and
..vmc files to another physical drive or network location?

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Spin

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Re: What"s the best way to "back up" a Virtual Machine OS?

Sent: 05/07/2006
From: Steve Jain <noreply.-at-.essjae.com@>
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On Sun, 7 May 2006 12:45:12 -0400, "Spin" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:

Trying googling this newsgroup. There are several lengthy threads
regarding this topic already.

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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I am not an employee of Microsoft.

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>Gurus,
>
>What's the best way to "back up" a Virtual Machine OS? Would it be a script
>that shuts down the VM nightly and say, copies off the associated .vhd and
>.vmc files to another physical drive or network location?

Re: What"s the best way to "back up" a Virtual Machine OS?

Sent: 05/07/2006
From: "Spin" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Thanks, will do.

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Spin

"Steve Jain" <noreply.-at-.essjae.com@> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

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> On Sun, 7 May 2006 12:45:12 -0400, "Spin" <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>Gurus,
>>
>>What's the best way to "back up" a Virtual Machine OS? Would it be a
>>script
>>that shuts down the VM nightly and say, copies off the associated .vhd and
>>.vmc files to another physical drive or network location?
>
> Trying googling this newsgroup. There are several lengthy threads
> regarding this topic already.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
> I am not an employee of Microsoft.

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