Backing up your VM: Difference between revisions

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. Creating backups in locations outside the cloud is strongly encouraged. A very common backup rule is the 3-2-1 backup rule, which states that you should have three copies of your data stored on at least two different types of media and one of those copies should be offsite. Below 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.