[dba-SQLServer] Syncing Virtual Machines

Francisco Tapia fhtapia at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 10:53:21 CDT 2011


So in what state is the logical disk that housed your vm?

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On Oct 25, 2011, at 6:40 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:

> No, not at all.  I did not back up before the change of the motherboard.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
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> On 10/25/2011 8:51 AM, Francisco Tapia wrote:
>> Did you mean you did not backup. Ever?
>>
>> Sent from my mobile
>>
>> 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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