On 13/06/12 21:19, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler
<a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
...
One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up the
files on the disk in that virtual machine. The best I can do is back up the
entire file that represents the disk. However the vast majority of that
disk is not changing on a regular basis and at 120GB of the image in use, it
takes a lot of resource to back it up. I would much prefer some sort of
approach that allows me to copy only the recent changes to a rolling
backup/archive store I have set up for my normal (linux) desktop .
Since the guest is running Windows 7, have you considered just using
Windows Backup (it comes with Windows) and having it backup your files
"over the network" either through Samba or using a VBox shared folder
to your host's hard disk? A Samba route would also work for KVM. I
don't know if KVM can do shared folders the way VBox does.
I am glad I asked the question. I hadn't even been thinking in that
direction - as I was thinking of pulling the backup rather than pushing
it. But of course I can do it that way. I already have some shares set
up using samba and I could just as easily set up one for a backup.
Thanks
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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