Re: The Wonderful World of Linux -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: The Wonderful World of Linux
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:45:30 -0600
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Joe Pluta wrote:

Backing up? Simply a matter of shutting down the virtual machine and copying a folder. And technically I think I could do a snapshot, but I'm still not as comfortable with that particular task.

Better to do a file backup using the tar in the Linux instance ... by backing up the VMWare instance you are backing up any possible corruption that might have occurred. If the vmware instance gets corrupted enough, the entire machine is toast. Yes, you can restore from a backup instance, but you are restoring the corruption as well.

If you backup the files inside of Linux, then a corrupted file is just that, a corrupted file. Fairly easy to recover.

david

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