Working With Virtual Machine Backups

If you use Parallels Management Console to work with Parallels Server Bare Metal-based physical servers, you can easily back up virtual machines residing on them. A regular backing up of virtual machines is essential for any physical server reliability.

To work with virtual machine backups, select a virtual machine in the Parallels Management Console sidebar and go to the Backup pane. If the virtual machine has any backups, the information about these backups is available in the Backup pane:

Column Name	Description
`ID`	The ID assigned to the backup archive.
`Name`	The name assigned to the backup archive.
`Date`	The date when the backup archive was created.
`Size`	The size of the backup archive, in megabytes.
`Type`	The backup type: A full backup indicated by `f` . An incremental backup indicated by `i` and containing only the files changed since the previous full or incremental backup.
`Description`	Description of the backup archive.

The Backup pane also contains the necessary controls allowing you to create a new backup, to restore a backup, or remove it from the Parallels physical server. More detailed information on how to do these operations is given in the following subsections.

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Backing Up a Virtual Machine

Restoring and Removing Virtual Machine Backups

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