copying live vmdk / vdi files

[Daniel]

My VMs are a bit more static than that.


Thanks for confirming.

Dan




On 04/22/2014 09:09 AM, Donald Pearson wrote:
> Think of it like trying paint a still portrait of a caffenated 8yr old 
> with a puppy.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net 
> <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>> wrote:
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>     Simply put, you can't  do file level operations on files that are
>     being operated on at the block level.  You will get a corruption of
>     multiple versions of your files combined together nonsensically.
>
>     This is what volume manager level snapshots are for.  Freeze your
>     files in time, then copy them.
>
>     Ditto for databases.
>
>     On 04/21/2014 09:27 PM, Daniel wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I would like to backup my Virtual Box VM folder. I have VDI and
>     > VMDK files in there. I am told I have to shutdown those virtual
>     > machines first in order for rsync to copy them correctly. Is this
>     > correct ?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Dan
>
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