Hello all, I am new to virtualization and this is my first post here. I have several different VM's I want to backup in case of disaster. I am using Cloudberry backup to backup to B2 in the cloud. I have the entire VM directory backed up. I went ahead and did a complete backup (image based) into B2 and was testing recovery. I was able to download the VM I wanted to test for recovery and all of the files and snapshots seemed in tact. Upon attempting to recover the VM and place it back into Virtualbox I hit some roadblocks.
I first tried to simply import it as an appliance. I realized this wasn't going to work as it wasn't packaged like that and it was in a machine state at this point.
Next I tried to simply - re-add this machine using Machine>Add from the VirtualBox interface and got an error about duplicate UUID's. I did some research and found that I could change/update the UUID by doing some CLI stuff. I went ahead and attempted to change the UUID, which was successful but was still not able to import. I figured the next thing I should do was delete the existing machine from VB and again try to import the recovered VM. Still no dice.
So my question is: What is the best way to automate and backup a VM the correct or approved way? I have googled this and haven't found much viable stuff and it is unclear if there is an "approved" way to do this. I would also like to auto-mate this process.
Thank you in advance!