[Box Backup] Virtual Machine backup

[Dave Bamford]

The diffing test works, here is a snapshot of the logs.

First I create a virtual machine (XP pro in this case) with
a 2G hard drive.

Then copy it via NFS to another machine running box client
and let it back up over the net to one of my servers.
> Jun  8 09:26:55 backup6 bbackupd[18765]: NOTICE: Beginning scan of 
> local files
> Jun  8 11:00:45 backup6 bbackupd[18765]: NOTICE: Finished scan of 
> local files
> Jun  8 11:00:45 backup6 bbackupd[18765]: NOTICE: File statistics: 
> total file size uploaded 2147486231, bytes already on server 0, 
> encoded size 423852639
>
Then I make some changes to the vm (I add vmware tools support)

replace the files on the nfs drive with the new ones of the same name

Box back it up but only the differences if I have interpreted it correctly.

> Jun  8 19:05:02 backup6 bbackupd[18765]: NOTICE: Beginning scan of 
> local files
> Jun  8 19:33:15 backup6 bbackupd[18765]: NOTICE: Finished scan of 
> local files
> Jun  8 19:33:15 backup6 bbackupd[18765]: NOTICE: File statistics: 
> total file size uploaded 2185862686, bytes already on server 
> 1720804357, encoded size 210338595
So now we have a means of "bare metal backup" with box.

Now I need to test a restore.

Dave Bamford