Backup Your NETLAB+ Virtual Appliance

It is imperative that you establish a plan for making backups of your NETLAB+ virtual appliance on a regular basis to protect against data loss and disaster recovery preparedness. You are also strongly advised to perform a backup before any software update and prior to adding additional content to your NETLAB+ system.

Important

It is the responsibility of the customer to maintain backups of their NETLAB+ system.

Proxmox Backup Server

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Manual Backups

You may make a backup of your NETLAB+ virtual appliance by creating snapshots and clones of your virtual machine.

Snapshot:

A snapshot preserves the state and data of a virtual machine, including virtual machine settings, power state, and disk state. The Snapshot Manager in the Proxmox VE Web Client provides several operations for creating and managing virtual machine snapshots.

Important

Do not rely on snapshots alone as your backup strategy; you should also create a clone periodically. Consider, for example, creating a daily snapshot and a weekly clone.

Clones:

A clone is a virtual machine that is a copy of the original. The new virtual machine is configured with the same virtual hardware, installed software, and other properties that were configured for the original virtual machine. The cloning task may be performed from the Proxmox VE Web Client.