System Locks Up on Boot Up

[JorgeB]

Glad you recovered most of it.

 

I agree that btrfs is not as robust as xfs, specially if there are any hardware issues, and frequent backups are very important, but it also has a much easier way of doing incremental backups with snapshots together with send/receive, I backup my VMs daily, and the snapshot itself is instantaneous, if interested on more info see here:

 

 

[comfox]

Thanks for the info...will this type of backup cover me in this type of scenario where I had corruption?  Would I just rebuild the pool from scratch and then put the snapshot back on to the new pool?

[JorgeB]

9 minutes ago, comfox said:

Would I just rebuild the pool from scratch and then put the snapshot back on to the new pool?

 

Yep

[comfox]

Thanks...I took a read through the post.  Seems amazing, though looks a bit too complicated for me to setup and maintain.  I don't know where to start.

[JorgeB]

Tom mentioned earlier that he's working on a VM snapshot/backup GUI utility, don't know if it's going to make it for v6.4 though:

 

 

[limetech]

13 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

Tom mentioned earlier that he's working on a VM snapshot/backup GUI utility, don't know if it's going to make it for v6.4 though:

 

Probably won't make into 6.4 but I use a procedure very similar to your "Method 2".  FWIW we use btrfs exclusively for all VM vdisks and all development.  Haven't had any issues whatsoever.

[comfox]

On 5/17/2017 at 2:10 PM, limetech said:

 

Probably won't make into 6.4 but I use a procedure very similar to your "Method 2".  FWIW we use btrfs exclusively for all VM vdisks and all development.  Haven't had any issues whatsoever.

 

I will likely go back to it, just wish I knew what caused this corruption in the first place.  Loosing a week to rebuild is a bummer.