VMware Backup Research

There may be situations where using VMware to build a regular home virtual machine will cause the virtual machines to fail to run and restore because of some hard disk failures.

Cold backup

A backup that shuts down

1, (recommended) the use of RAR such compression software, directly to the entire directory for backup; Just select I have moved the virtual machine, and remain exactly the same as the original.

2, the use of VMware cloning function, and the 1th is the same as the effect of the Scheme; Action: Select the virtual machine that you want to back up--right-click Manage, click Clone.

Hot backup

That is, a backup that does not shut down

1, using the snapshot features of VMware, but one point, the snapshot can only exist on the current virtual machine hard disk, or avoid the risk of hard drive bad.

2, the use of RAR compression software to backup, after testing is able to back up, but the state of the restore is not normal shutdown, the data are still there, there may be some data loss situation, if you want to use this scheme, you need to be cautious.

The above is the backup problem I encountered when I was using VMware to build a home virtual machine, the most reliable solution is cold backup, but can not avoid manual operation.

If you really want to make a fully automated solution, consider an enterprise-class virtual machine (ESX3, etc.).

VMware Backup Research