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Acronis Backup on a server VM - Mea Culpa
Hi there
I made a little error (just a small peccadillo) on discussing backup on a server virtual machine with Acronis.
( I was in a pub drinking a beer with my Lunch and demoing a virtual W2K3 server on a laptop to a colleague who didn't think it would work fast -- Free Lunch and beer today ).
True you can't install the desktop version of acronis on the server and whilst the stand alone version of acronis works (just boot from the CD) works it occurred to me I'm running a VIRTUAL SERVER.
So the obvious thing is just to backup the Virtual disks on the HOST machine -- see what a nice glass of Beer does - especially when its free.
That way you can schedule backups, have incremental backups and use compression rather than use the clone method which just copies the files byte for byte without compression.
If you organise your VM's properly keep most of the data on Networked drives so your VM data space doesn't have to be large and it makes it easier to share common data between the Real and Virtual environment.
Also if you change Virtual machines or move them users don't have to worry about losing data.
Cheers
jimbo