On 14/06/12 18:27, Chris Davies wrote: > Alan Chandler <[email protected]> wrote: >> One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up >> the files on the disk in that virtual machine. > > DeltaCopy on the Windows system and rsnapshot/rsync on the (Linux) > server. Works well for me. > > Chris > > I don't know DeltaCopy - but fsarchiver will tar up your Windows files nice and quick to a SAMBA share. It's the method I use when converting physical to virtualbox machine conversions (P2V).
rsync is also good - especially for incremental backups which fsarchiver won't do. (as is rsnapshot). fsarchiver is also in Debian repos. Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome/Chromium/Iceape/IE extensions for finding answers to questions about Debian:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

