Is it a very bad idea to create disk image of mounted disk?
- by Maciek Sawicki
I would like to backup my server. For example using dd:
dd if=/dev/md0 of=/some_network_share
I wonder if this image will be vary inconsistent if /dev/md0 is mounted? Would it be possible to convert such dd image to vdi drive and create working virtual machine? Using this command for example:
VBoxManage convertfromraw ImageFile.dd OutputFile.vdi
Network traffic is disabled on firewall (there is only connection to/from one remote machine where image is copied).