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There are a few different strategies to backup your virtual machine and to recover from disasters, which you choose will depend on your requirements and your particular use case. A few common methods to backup or preserve the state of your virtual machine are mentioned followed by | There are a few different strategies to backup your virtual machine and to recover from disasters, which you choose will depend on your requirements and your particular use case. A few common methods to backup or preserve the state of your virtual machine are mentioned followed by an example strategy of how a few of these methods might be used together to create a complete backup strategy. | ||
==File backup== | ==File backup== | ||
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Compute VMs also come with an extra data drive mounted at <code>/mnt</code>, the data on this drive is not captured in the image created of a compute VM. Other arrangements must be made to save this data, such as coping it off the disk before the VM is terminated. | Compute VMs also come with an extra data drive mounted at <code>/mnt</code>, the data on this drive is not captured in the image created of a compute VM. Other arrangements must be made to save this data, such as coping it off the disk before the VM is terminated. | ||
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Very large disk images (larger than 10-20 GB) can become difficult to manage with relatively long upload times and long VM creation times. | Very large disk images (larger than 10-20 GB) can become difficult to manage with relatively long upload times and long VM creation times. | ||