[dba-SQLServer] Syncing Virtual Machines

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 06:13:36 CDT 2011


Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you just copy the physical VM file
from one server to another, say daily? I have successfully done that with
Sun VirtualBox.

A.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:07 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> I have a virtual machine server (Colby-VM) and last weekend I rebuilt that
> machine - new motherboard / memory in preparation for a faster CPU etc.  I
> store all my stuff on a RAID array on a dedicated controller, and which
> survives nicely across upgrades so I got lazy and did not backup.  (almost)
> Everything that could go wrong did and by the end of the experience I was
> sweating bullets about whether I was going to find one of my critical VMs.
>
>



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