Re: The Wonderful World of Linux

David Gibbs wrote:

Joe Pluta wrote:

Backing up? Simply a matter of shutting down the virtual machine and copying a folder. And technically I think I could do a snapshot, but I'm still not as comfortable with that particular task.

Better to do a file backup using the tar in the Linux instance ... by backing up the VMWare instance you are backing up any possible corruption that might have occurred. If the vmware instance gets corrupted enough, the entire machine is toast. Yes, you can restore from a backup instance, but you are restoring the corruption as well.

If you backup the files inside of Linux, then a corrupted file is just that, a corrupted file. Fairly easy to recover.

david

Different scenarios. I use the VMWare folder copy before and after each major configuration process (such as installing a new piece of software). It's equivalent to a system backup, and it's so much easier with virtualization.

Daily backup will use a standard backup technique, but I haven't decided on that one yet. I just haven't decide whether to use local storage on the host machine for backups and then copy that to USB, or just go straight to USB. I also have to choose a backup technique; I'm looking into bacula and trying to figure out how to enable that through a Windows share to my USB storage, if that's indeed the direction I choose to go.

Joe