Hi, Just curious, is it really the porpoise of the snapshot to backup both the vm and the application data? I think snapshot is appropriate to backup the vm and the you should have your regular backup for the app, as a database backup that can be done online. In this scenario you take a backup of the vm when something changes (updates, new software, configs, etc) and not all the time and do regular backups of the db as it's the information that changes all the time. I said this because I'm curious about the benefits of doing backups the way it's been posted. Regards,