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Or a link to MIT License website. Try it yourself!
Virtual Disk Images (VDI’s) created for a virtual machine whilst on XenServer 5.0 are ‘raw disks‘ and as such, have no file system. In order to use virtual machine level snapshots (which are file level snapshots), the disk images (VDI’s) existing within the Citrix XenServer Storage Repository container (SR) needs to be formatted in the VHD file format.
Snapshots are a point-in-time ‘view’ of a disk volume. Snapshot creation is instant and once created, a Snapshot allows all new disk writes to continue unabated. As such, Snapshots enable crash consistent backups and transaction consistent backups for supported Snapshot aware applications such as databases, email servers and the like.
Backup methods will vary dependent on your storage hardware, backup software and the type of Snapshot used. Continue reading




