Backing Up A BigBlueButton Virtual Machine Image To A Remote Server To Save Money On Linode
00:03:10 Creating the volume to store the backup image.
00:04:20 Booting the linode into rescue mode.
00:06:30 Creating a filesystem on the volume and mounting it.
00:07:30 Backing up the linode's volume to an image.
00:09:50 Checking the image and then shrinking it.
00:13:45 Creating a smaller holding volume, then copying the image to it.
00:21:45 Deleting the linode and the backup volume to save money.
00:23:50 Creating a linode to compress the image.
00:29:15 Compressing the saved disk image.
00:33:15 Copying the compressed image to an external server.
00:40:20 Deleting the linode and the volume to not be spending any money on them.
In this video I am showing how to back up the Linode virtual machine, that I am running the BigBlueButton and Greenlight install on, to a compressed disk image, so that I can then store it on an external server, which then allows me to save money, because Linode will still charge you for a virtual machine that is powered off. The compression is done in the advanced rescue mode that Linode provides for each of it's virtual machines.