[ale] virtual machines, cloud, back-up

[Wolf Halton]

My standard backup plan was tarring and backing up configs and data to a
storage array and cycling out the back files on rolling weekly basis.

When trying new risky things i did a snapshot of current state on dev copy
of server and if it failed, could roll back.

Wolf Halton
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On Aug 2, 2013 1:23 PM, "Nolan Voight" <nolan.voight at gmail.com> wrote:

> A friend asked me to look over a hosting deal she was considering for her
> business site--the folks offering it used 'cloud' everywhere possible in
> the ad copy. I assume this means it's all running on virtual machines, as
> are most affordable hosting plans these days.
>
> What is standard practice for back-up on virtual servers (if there is
> something approaching standard practice)? Exporting the virtual machine &
> storing that copy until it's replaced by the succeeding copy?
>
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