Newbie Backup Question

[Adrian1000]

Hello

I have recently installed VMware player and installed XP Professional onto it. I am running Vista Home Premium.

I am fairly religious about backup. If my computer was to die, it would be great to know I can import/restore a file off my backup to enable me to carry on using my virtual copy of XP.

Therefore can someone kindly advise which files I need to backup and which ones I would need to restore to another machine.

Many thanks in advance.

Adrian

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Communities,

VMware makes it easy to backup VMs. By default all files which belong to a VM are stored in one folder. All you have to do is to backup these folders (with the VM's powered off).

André

[petedr]

Thats basically why i had been doing in either a personal workstation or vmware server environment.

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[pauljawood]

Hi Adrian1000,

Welcome to the boards and I hope you find all the information that you need. In reference to your question I would point to to the folder you have saved your virtual machines in. The complete virtual machine will be stored under a folder and made up of a few files (vmdk, vmx etc.).

To make a copy (back up) of your virtual machine then all you need to do is copy the entire folder to your preferred storage media and you have a backup.

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[Adrian1000]

First of all, many thanks indeed for all of your most helpful answers.

Is it really that simple? All I have to do is restore my backed up folder to a new machine and open up the vmdk file (from the VMWare player interface). This is too good to be true!

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

Actually it's the vmx file, but yes, it's that easy.

André

[Adrian1000]

Many thanks indeed

[petedr]

Thanks for the helpful and good luck with your environment

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