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For automating a full backup of a VM, is exporting as an appliance better than cloning the VM?
I recently had a mishap on my VM, where for somereason the settings of my
BridgeNetwork got changed randomly. I had to spend quite a bit of time to
figure out the root cause. Rightnow, I manually copy ...
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Can I export appliance with all the snapshots in VirtualBox (Version 5.1.28)?
I use Oracle VM VirtualBox Version 5.1.28 r117968 (Qt5.6.2) . I have two virtual machines (Windows 7 64bit and Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS) with 8 snapshots in Windows and 6 snapshots in Ubuntu. I want to have ...
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Is quiescing a VM during a backup necessary for a consistent snapshot of the filesystem?
Do I need to 'quiesce' a running VM to get a consistent snapshot of the disk at a point in time?
I do not care if there are unwritten buffers or if a running application is consistent with the disk. ...
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Can I backup a running virtualbox Virtual machine?
I am currently running a time consuming python script on a virtual machine(It has been running for ~95 hours at the moment). I have no idea how long it will take to complete and am running it on a VM ...
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