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How to backup virtualbox VMs?

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What is the best way to backup VMs in virtualbox? Does it have any way to back them up live and automaticly?

I'm trying to export as an appliance, but it takes up the GUI so I can only do one at a time. I'm also hoping there's a way to do a compressed backup. Not sure whether or not this export does it. I preallocate my space when I create VMs but I'm hoping the backups don't have to be that big.

I have 2 failing drives in my raid array and it just occurred to me the hell it would be to recreate all those VMs and rebuild all those environments if I get a total failure. File backups are nice but not enough. I need to back these up at least every couple months.
 
If you turn the disks into a VirtualBox image, you can just use that and create a new VM. This is what I've always done with VirtualBox, both with existing images and with a self-created image from my server (which ended up failing but for different reasons, similar situation as you actually!) Hope that helps a bit!
 
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