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A new development snapshot of VMBackup is now available.  This release is not fully tested, however it should fix the issues with backing up VMs with spaces in the path or filename.

As always you can download it from the download page

I am still actively working on the next experimental release of VMBackup.  It’s taking a while because the changes to support VirtualBox are requiring significant changes to the restore utility.

The plan is for the restore format to be selectable so it will be possible to restore a virtual machine to run under a different virtualization program.  I.E. taking a backup of a Virtual Machine running under VMware Server and restoring it as a Virtual Box VM.

Today I was surprised to find that the Debian Package of the Day is the joe editor. This post made me feel extremely nostalgic. I remember back when I first found joe thinking about how wonderful it was to find an Editor that wasn’t vi and worked like the wordstar editor I used on CP/M.

I just put up an experimental release of VMBackup.  This version is considered experimental because it has significant changes and has not been fully tested.  If you break it you may keep both pieces.

The changes in this version are:

• Fix to the logging code to work correctly if the log directory doesn’t exist.  Hopefully this will fix the backup gui so it will work under SuSE Linux.
• Added partial support for cold and LVM backups of VirtualBox Virtual machines via the command line and GUI.  Only tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 formats are supported for backups of VirtualBox VMs.  (Note the vmrestore utiltiy does not understand Virtual Box Virtual Machines yet)
• Some code was added to support backing up VMWare Virtual Machines with vmdks in multiple locations (this is not complete however)
• Added some fixes to support configurations in which more than one piece of Virtualization software is installed (tested on a system with both VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox running).
• Added a header to the archives so the vmrestore utility doesn’t need to guess the Virtual Machine type in order to support conversions in the future.

The new version is available on the download page

Documentation can be found on the documentation page