Ok, this sounds good... or rather bad if it happensscottgus1 wrote:may boot fine but have damaged data. This last case is the most insidious, and hardest to detect.
So, I am getting more and more convinced that I really have to shut down my VMs before "saving" them. (But actually, this is why I asked for this discussion: I want to understand it - which I could not from the older threads on that topic. So, thank you all for all your valuable contributions!)
Given the need to shut down the VMs and then "saving" them: are there any objections to this
- take a snapshot (of the powered off machine)
- then "saving" it using rsync
I actually have the hope that this will some more copy time because the "older" vdi files don't have to be copied again and again, but only the newer differencing ones. Does this sound reasonable?