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Hi everybody. I would like to know id there is an option to create an aoutomatic scheduled snapshot of the Virtual Disk.
That's for making backup. I am planning to create a snapshot everyday at 8 p.m.
Then Acronis will create the backup of my disk.

Thanks!

Snapshots are not useful as backups, so no, there is no facility to automate them for backup purposes. However you could always script it from your host ("VBoxManage snapshot"), though I don't recommend it.

thanks.
Is there a way to make a backup of a running machine?

Incremental live backup is quite easy from inside the guest - you would install standard "backup to network drive" tools. Harder to do (with certainty and reliability) from the host.