Re: copying live vmdk / vdi files

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 > wrote: --

Re: copying live vmdk / vdi files

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 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Simply put, you can't do file level operations on files that are > being operated on at the block level.

Re: copying live vmdk / vdi files

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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.

copying live vmdk / vdi files

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 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the maili