Re: best backup strategy for full backup's
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 11:48:58 -0000, Michael Niehren wrote:
One additional question ...
if i have same snapshots in a vm, the "backup-begin" do only an backup of the
currently running snapshot, right ?
The backup job always backs-up only the current guest-visible state of
the disks.
Technically a snapshot is a point-in-time in the past you might want to
return to. The state represented by the snapshot is thus different from
what you are backing up.
With external snapshots the backup will be identical as if you merged in
all the layers created by the snapshots.