How to duplicate or backup existing VM?

[Turbulentarius]

Surely there must be an easy command to do this?

I tried simply copying the VM from ~/.lima/[name-of-vm], but not sure how far that will get me. It also gave errors when copying .sock files, so this is obviously not a good way to do it.

[Turbulentarius]

Okay, in spite of the errors on copying the .sock file, it looks like I can in fact cp -R ~/.lima/instance-name ~/.lima/instance-name-test and then running my test backup with limactl start instance-name-test.