Backing up your VM

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It is often a good idea to backup your VM. The two main VM flavors the persistent (p) flavors and the compute (c) flavors have different behaviors and backups should be considered differently for each.

Persistent VMs

Persistent VMs are designed to boot from volumes (see []).

Compute VMs

• Volumes versus ephemeral drives?
• OpenStack Command Line Clients
• OpenStack#Creating_an_Image_from_a_VM
• OpenStack#Downloading_an_Image
• OpenStack#Uploading_an_Image