Hello,
I have been wondering what a solid method to use for backing up a VM that is IN USE (sorry for the caps, but this is the main point of the question).
I have a VM server that has just been a champ. Everything runs great, and I dread the day that the drive containing the VM dies, or worse, some Windows OS problem on the VM.
I have tried Livestate within the VM, but during test restores, it has been incredibly unreliable.
I even used Livestate and VMware together, to open images, and unfortunately on a Domain controller, it fails most of the time.
I have tried Windows Backup, with its Volume Shadowing technology (same as in Livestate) but this has a tendency to fail or corrupt the source and backup image.
Maybe I am simply doing something wrong, but any advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you