Virtualization Essentials

Cloning a Virtual Machine

Backing up information was a necessary process even before the advent of computers. As you have seen, the amount of data that systems handle today is immense and continues to grow. Protecting that information is a function that needs to be simple, efficient, and reliable. There have been many solutions to back up the data on a system, from the earliest days when computer disks were written out to magnetic tape. If you periodically back up your personal computer, you might use a similar method; a simple utility or the most basic file copy to move data files to other media, like CDs, DVDs, or USB disk drives. Newer solutions, such as Mozy, Dropbox, and Carbonite, track and copy file changes from the local system to an ...