Best practices for backup of a VM Web server?

This question comes from another thread, that I created, but I figure I might as well start a thread fresh since it is his own question.

Basically, I have an environment that I inherited when I started my new job within this environment, there is a lonely VM that runs from our Web server and was created using VMware player (will go to the workstation for the snapshot feature).

I am extremely concerned by the fact that there is no backup strategy for it, so I'm interested in finding the best way to save this virtual machine.

Being that it's a machine virtual I instantly thought, but of course I'm open to dictate what best practices.

A lot of what I've read so far indicates to stop or suspend the virtual machine, then copy files, however is there a way to do that without temporarily take down my Web server?  It's just that we have customers in the world that has access to the server to different time zones and I want her to be in place 24/7.

You'll have to stop the Virtual Machine and close VMware Player and uninstall VMware Player to install VMware Workstation and it is the time where you should make a backup copy of the master of the Virtual Machine.  Once installed VMware Workstation and the Virtual Machine is back and then runs to reduce the minimum time for subsequent backups you necessarily do not do such proposed by Richardson Porto although I don't disagree with what he says.

In theory anyway, and in practice, when you want to backup you would take a cliché Hot and then copy the Parent disk such that it is now read-only and the Virtual Machine is still running while you make a copy of the Parent disk.  Once you have copied the Parent disk, you can then remove the snapshot thus merging Delta and drive Parent and now ready for the next time you want to back up the drive.  The duration of that Virtual Machine is interrupted during the snapshot warm and hot snapshot delete should be considerably less and then stop and restart the virtual machine.  The reason why I said "in theory" because while it is supposed to work in practice, nevertheless if you correctly shutdown the guest operating system before capture instant, so you do not rely on VMware Workstation to make sure that everything works all in being hot.  Not that you should have problems, it's hot, however you remove a layer of the process that has the potential of being wrong compared to when is cold, even if it is cold takes a little longer.

In both cases, I would avoid cloning because it changes the UUID and MAC address of the clone of the parent company and by creating a second occurrence technically need a second license for the Windows operating system that is installed on the cloned virtual machine.  In other words an archived copy complete or exact unedited from the original is a legitimate backup a clone of IMO is a second occurrence but it has a different UUID and MAC address.  It would be like taking a copy of the operating system with a single license and install on two different physical computers.  Also by doing as I have suggested and make a backup copy of Master of the Virtual Machine and then just save the Parent read-only disks disk hard virtual are themselves not a computer virtual and just that copy a backup, however can be used to restore the same Virtual Machine driven and not having not any changes in the UUID MAC addresses etc.

Finally, you should look into what you are running in the guest operating system and how to properly save Web Site and database, or user data etc in the guest operating system.  In other words, you should always have a copy backup of the virtual machine and everything that is necessary in the guest operating system to be able to restore it without necessarily restore all of the Virtual Machine.  IMO it's better to have several and backup types to have more options in a recovery scenario!

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