[ale] Virtual machine

[JD]

There are 2 ways main ways to backup virtual machines.
* using the VM "export" tool built-into Vbox
* from inside the VM, using nominal backup methods

Backing up VM files from outside the VM has some issues, though converting a 50G
backup into an 18G restore is not something I expected.

Exporting a VM is more like taking an image backup - usually not very efficient.
For Windows VMs a VM export really is the only way I know to do this. The backup
tools for Windows have never worked well for me, at least the free ones.  Data
backups are all I can do on Windows - that an keeping the installed files to a
minimum (I try to only use ninite install packages) to keep rebuilds simple.
Program settings maintained inside Windows "special locations" has never
suported restores for me - it is maddening that we cannot easily migrate a Media
Center install/settings to a new host.

On 05/12/2014 11:12 AM, Pablo Ordonez wrote:
> Hi there 
> 
> Looking for some pointers.
> 
> I had a Window 8 virtual machine (.vdi file of 50 GB) in my Virtual Box. Before
> doing a cleaning installation of Ubuntu, I backed up using dejavu (duplicity
> front end in Ubuntu).
> After restore the virtual machine I have a .vdi file with a size of 18 GB, and I
> cannot run it. The blue screen of death shows a error. 
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Pablo
>