@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM and Back Ups:
@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM and Back Ups:
@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:
In my experience with it, it has often corrupted randomly and to the point that it's own snapshots are no help, nor are VMware Snapshots.
How could it correct VMware snapshots?
I guess it's more that BtrFS doesn't detect the corruption early enough and our VMware snapshot are nothing but snapshots of corrupt data... That's about the only way I can explain it.
General risk with hypervisor level backups. This is a huge reason for either local file based or what I call devops backups. They are at a higher level, so there is way more opportunity for this.
But if the system was okay when you took the VMware snap, it should have been okay when you restored it. Regardless of corruption.
Yeah, exactly.... and this is why Snapshots are not a backup!
Snapshots absolutely are the backup mechanism.