[PVE-User] Questions about backup strategy

[Patrick Kaiser]

On 03 May 2015, at 15:22, Gerald Brandt <gbr at majentis.com> wrote:

> On 2015-05-03 3:36 AM, Julien Groselle wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have never backuped any VM.
>> I consider every VM as a server, so I backup the data inside (rsync based backup) and not the envelop.
>> 
>> If someone can tell me what is the advantage to backup the VM, maybe I will change my mind :-)
>> 
>> 
> I backup the data in the VM (using BackupPC) daily.  I vzdump the VM's weekly for disaster recovery purposes.  The snapshots and friday backups go offsite.  If the building burns down, I can build a new Proxmox system, and restore from vzdump, losing, at most, a week of work.  No fiddling to rebuild servers and restore from backups, just a restore of the image.
> 
> I verify the offsite on a semi-monthly basis.
> 
> Gerald
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Hi,

how do you verify these images?