CowboyRedBeard Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 What is everyone doing for backups of VMs at the moment? I saw that 6.13 / 7.0 may have snapshots built in... But in the interim, is there a good backup system that uses deltas? Currently I've just been shutting down the VM and making a copy, but those are huge files and the number of VMs I have are growing and their importance to my operations is also increasing. Thanks in advance for the advice! Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 UrBackup is what I use. Discussion here. Quote Link to comment
SpaceInvaderOne Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 I like keeping my vms on a ZFS Zpool. I have a dataset "domains" then a dataset for each individual vm. From there you can snapshot each directly from the zfs master plugin, or as i do automatically using sanoid. From here you can then use zfs replication to replicate the vms with snapshots to another Zpool. This is very efficient and a great solution in my opinion. To make this easier I have made some scripts to automatically do this. If you are interested in doing this check out these 2 videos. 1 Quote Link to comment
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