The CodeFromThe70s blog has a tutorial for backing up your current installation of Windows XP to a virtual machine that you can access at any time from your fresh installation of Windows, potentially ...

* Writing scripts and executing them to quiesce (minimize the number of processes running on) the virtual machine, back up its contents and restore the virtual machine. * A combination of agent-based ...

One of my favorite Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 features is the included VS Writer, which leverages the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to back up running virtual machines. In order to take advantage ...

The virtual machine (VM) is the standard unit of deployment in today’s IT. Utilisation rates reach 80% or more, with many organisations running completely virtual environments. As a result, VM backup ...

Most organisations these days prefer to deploy most new servers as virtual machines (VMs), with physical servers deployed only in exceptional or business-justified cases. Virtual backup appliances – ...

Windows users have several virtualization platforms at their disposal, allowing them to run simulated (or virtualized) systems within a single PC, each acting as a completely independent PC ...

As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.