[dba-SQLServer] Syncing Virtual Machines

Francisco Tapia fhtapia at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 07:51:51 CDT 2011


Did you mean you did not backup. Ever?

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On Oct 25, 2011, at 4:14 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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