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title: "Guides — Page 2"
description: "Field guides for backing up virtual machines, testing restores, and keeping copies that survive the production site."
url: https://howtobackupvm.com/en/blog/2/
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# Guides — Page 2

Field guides for backing up virtual machines, testing restores, and keeping copies that survive the production site.

## Guides

Published 2026-02-03

Use a backup job that talks to vSphere, writes changed blocks elsewhere, and can register the virtual machine on a recovery host.

Published 2026-01-12

A snapshot points at the same disks as the running virtual machine, so it disappears with the datastore.

## Questions

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