-=> Khelair wrote to Dreamer <=-
> In any case, nightly backups -- and possibly more frequent -- is
> probably the best policy with virtualization. By its very nature,
> anything virtualized is going to be less stable. What's working in
> your current VM version isn't guaranteed to work as well in the next
> version.
Kh> Absolutely. What environment is this one that you're working
Kh> with on the guest machine? If you'd like me to toss my rsync script
Kh> for incremental backup your way I can certainly help you out with that.
Kh> All you have to do is set a few script variables manually and it
Kh> handles the rest once the locations (and keys, if using ssh to tunnel)
Kh> are all set up.
At the moment I'm not doing anything special on my VM at home. It's
Ubuntu under a Win 8.1 host. I'm only backing it up a couple times a
month, which is fine for me. I've got an Ubuntu guest on a VPS
hosting my board, and it's backed up daily. My backup needs are taken
care of, but thanks.
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