How Back Up VM built on Bootcamp?

[autnagrag]

My first post, this. Setup is as per signature, below.

The VM works well, and has been exhaustively updated. It's virtual HD passed the Windows command line

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:>chkdsk /b

, as did the Bootcamp partition.

I have read the documentation for Virtual Box.
I have searched here.
I know how to, and have already performed a, back up of the Bootcamp partition using Winclone 3.7.

What I don't know how to do, and want to do, is back up the virtual machine. I must be bad at searching, because I can't imagine I'm the only one who wants to do this. I know this sort of set up is not rare, because there is a tutorial in these forums about it (Win7 guest on OS X host, guest VM built on Bootcamp installation).

I'm getting an error when I try to use VirtualBox>File>Export -- and I'm not even sure that's the right way to back up.

Suggestions welcome.

[noteirak]

To backup the machine, simply copy the Virtual Machine folder to the backup location, when the VM is powered off completely.
Simple as that.

[autnagrag]

Excellent.

Thank you so much.

[nielvrom]

Thanks!