28 Nov
2013
28 Nov
'13
10:34 a.m.
On 11/27/2013 10:41 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 06:28:26 AM you wrote:
Yes and no. Backups of the VM for disaster recover purposes, and regular *separate* data backups done from within the VM.
NB - quiescising/ windows stylle VSS for vm backups is desirable to ensure DB tables etc aren't corrupted on restore, but it isn't a replacement for data backups.
just a btw that the qemu-guest-agent if installed on a windows guest is supposed to interact with VSS during live snapshot.