Backups feel safe, but they are only useful if you can restore them when the unexpected occurs.
Many operators treat backups as a safety net; few test that net for real resilience.
Backups: The Silent Power of Resurrection
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How to backup VMWare Workstation Player machines?
The Workstation Player of VMWare is a lightweight and free desktop virtualization hypervisor for non-commercial users. We can learn about virtualization and use it for practicing for free. We can run Windows, Linux and BSD systems on our host machine. The Workstation Player supports Windows and Linux as host for virtualization.
The free solution comes with some limitations. The following technique will let us to take backups or snapshots of our virtual machines. Only use it for personal practice and learning! Business and nonprofit use is considered commercial use!
Continue reading “How to backup VMWare Workstation Player machines?”How to run multiple instances of the same distro in WSL?
Microsoft WSL is a very good technology when we want to run Linux applications on our Windows computer. When we install a distro from the Microsoft Store we can only install one instance of it. But with some work we can have multiple instances of the same distro.
Continue reading “How to run multiple instances of the same distro in WSL?”How to backup and restore a distro in WSL?
Backing up and restoring WSL distros is easier than we think! It is simply an export of the (stopped) distro that can be moved on an external disk as an archive. Restoring a backup is importing the generated tar file.
Moreover we can add multiple instances of the same distro with exporting and then importing it.
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