On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mike Bydalek
<mbydalek AT compunetconsulting DOT com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:11 AM, John Moorhouse
> <john.moorhouse AT 3jays.me DOT uk> wrote:
>> I'm happily using backupPC to backup a number of machine within our home 
>> network, I'm wondering what will happen if I use it to backup the file on 
>> the host machine that is the virtual disc for a number of virtual box VM, 
>> will it have to backup the whole file each run (they are rather large) or is 
>> it capable of only copying those bits of the file that have changed ?
>>
>> Basically I'm after suggestions of 'best practice' in this situation
>
> An image is exactly that, a binary image.  The best thing would be use
> BackupPC to connect to the actually Virtual Host and back that up.

I think the OP understands that the first backup would be the whole
virtual disk file, what he's asking is will subsequent incremental
backups be a diff of the first.

Richard

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