JorgeB Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 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: Quote Link to comment
comfox Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 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? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 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 Quote Link to comment
comfox Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 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: Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
comfox Posted May 18, 2017 Author Share Posted May 18, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
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