[rt-users] Backing up RT

[Andy Graybeal]

> I run a nightly dump as root:
>
> mysqldump --opt rt3 -u root -p>  rt3.sql
>    (assuming the root user can perform that dump)
>
> Then scp the file to another system.
>
> Since the rest of the system doesn't change much, I don't bother with much of anything else.  I have a snapshot of the whole system (my RTs are VMs under VirtualBox, so they're easy to backup (single file)).

Good this sounds like I'm on the right track then.

How do you manage your virtual machine snapshots?

Why vbox and not kvm?

Thank you for your response.
-Andy