Re: Re: Linux on EFI systems
By: Dreamer to Khelair on Thu Apr 24 2014 12:19:00
> Weird. I've had an occasional lockup/crash under VirtualBox...don't
> remember what I was doing at the time, except that it was stuff that
> would normally go off without a hitch on real hardware. Also notable
> that I've never had a crash on a Linux host, all my crashes were on
> Windows.
Yeah I wish I remembered exactly what was going on my last few
times. I've lost XP, OpenBSD, and Debian/Ubuntu Linux VMs all in my
time, though. I've started doing full bug reports on things now, trying
to make a little bit better of a searchable web portfolio for myself to
get back into IT work, but I wasn't doing all of that note taking back
when those last crashes happened. :P
> Anyways, I haven't had any recent virtual disk problems -- yet. I did
> have one XP guest get trashed several years ago, and it was very
> frustrating at the time.
Yeah. It got me a few times before I was backing up regularly.
Then I thought the snapshots would take care of everything. Then I got
really pissed. Started using CrashPlan and custom tarballing scripts
and eventually rsync scripts modifiable for multiple environments. Then
my backup server went down for a couple of days and POOOF. Now I'm on
physical hardware again, which is good being as an indoor thunderstorm
took out my 2 64bit machines with lightning strikes within less than a
week of each other.
> In any case, nightly backups -- and possibly more frequent -- is
> probably the best policy with virtualization. By its very nature,
> anything virtualized is going to be less stable. What's working in
> your current VM version isn't guaranteed to work as well in the next
> version.
Absolutely. What environment is this one that you're working
with on the guest machine? If you'd like me to toss my rsync script for
incremental backup your way I can certainly help you out with that. All
you have to do is set a few script variables manually and it handles the
rest once the locations (and keys, if using ssh to tunnel) are all set
up.
-- guh up the effbomb down wif yr bad self
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