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Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions



>> However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method
>> compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much smaller.
> Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using
> large files with only marginal changes inside) and I have been using it
> for my Virtualbox VMs for a very long time.

You might also like `bup` which does the same kind of deduplication, so
can also be used on large files that change only in small parts.


        Stefan


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