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

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

## Guides

Published 2026-07-30

Keep enough restore points to recover yesterday’s mistake and last quarter’s compliance question, then delete the rest on purpose.

Published 2026-06-22

A second copy in the same rack still shares power, cooling, and a fire. Send one copy to another site or a separate account.

Published 2026-05-14

A backup counts only after you boot a copy on storage and a network that cannot reach production.

Published 2026-04-09

Ask the guest to flush databases before the hypervisor copies disks, or the restored machine may boot with a torn write.

Published 2026-03-18

Use vzdump or the backup server so each Proxmox guest has a copy outside the disk that holds its virtual disk.

Published 2026-02-24

Protect Hyper-V guests with a job that uses the Hyper-V VSS writer, stores the copy off the CSV, and can import the virtual machine on another host.

## Questions

No. Each hypervisor has its own article, and the practice articles apply across VMware, Hyper-V, and Proxmox.

Yes. Search from the header only returns pages in the language you are reading.

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