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| From | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions |
| Date | 2017-05-21 19:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tJCwF-29Z-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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>> 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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Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-05-20 15:20 +0200
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