Back up a raw disk VM?

[scottgus1]

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Could you please define this? Can't figure it out.

Running VB 6.0.12 on Ubuntu 18.04 with guest Windows 7. I made a raw disk that points to a physical SSD which hosts the guest OS (also have a 1TB HDD for host and everything else).

I want to be ready for a quick redeployment and minimal loss of data in case of a hardware (SSD) failure.

What is the best way to back up the raw disk content? If needed, also quickly attach that backup to a different VM and not necessarily again from a raw disk (might be a different host OS or just one drive available)?

The above is the first post. I'm not seeing anything in it that requires this:

no elegant way to shut down the entire computer. .... shuts down the physical machine afterwards.

My setup does not require this:

What I would really like to avoid is to have a backup file that needs operating system to be restored

Typical imaging software boots from a live-CD environment which need no previous OS to be present.

Needs additional software.

Yes,my setup needs this too. But this was not negated in the first post either, and maybe I missed it but I don't see it required in other posts either.

A good first post will lay out the whole problem with required restrictions, and help folks tune their answers properly.