D. Alan Stewart wrote:
> Exactly. The virtual Windows machine won't be running. I'll shut it
> down and then backup the virtual hard drive, which is just a big
> binary file from OS X's perspective.
>
> On Jul 29, 2006, at 5:23 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>>
>> His (virtual) disk images are contained in a huge file. He could
>> use other backup methods for contents of the running virtual
>> machine, but I think he just wants the whole image file from
>> the host's perspective but with less space consumption than
>> full copies after each small change.
This actually makes sense: I've done similar things with OS image tarballs
in Linux, but always stored them as tarballs (which compress well), not as
disk images (which really, really, really do not compress well, especially
if they've been used for a while).
Subversion is the wrong tool for this, I think. The binaries are huge, and
there's no good facility in Subversion for discarding unwanted previous
revisions of a file or of alternatively named, copied files, so it'll clog
any reasonably sized repository pretty fast. I'd actually be inclined to
have a big backup drive and use something like "rsnapshot" to keep a few
backup copies stashed on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.
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Received on Sun Jul 30 18:18:43 2006