On Sunday, April 15, 2012, at 7:37:20 PM, Andreas Piening wrote:

=>> I need to be able to completely restore the system including the
=>> virtual machines if the machine gets lost, or damaged to a
=>> non-repairable state

If you do a full backup of the host, including all the KVM configuration
and VM files together with the virtual disk files themselves, then a full
restore should automagically take care of the virtual machines. They would
not need to be backed up separately. You should also be able to restore
their data by simply restoring just the virtual disk files, included in the
full host backup.

I don't do this myself, though, to back up my VirtualBox virtual machines,
because my backup media isn't large enough to handle full host backups.
Instead, I simply copy the virtual disk files individually to one of
several external drives. This has worked to give me full backup on the VMs
on the few occasions that I've needed it.

-- 
Jim Kyle
mailto: jim AT jimkyle DOT com


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