nixen
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| [OS X] TimeMachine to NAS (A Freaking Lifesaver)
Damn... Glad I set that up! Previously, I'd had TimeMachine set up to an external drive and was only hooking the drive up every couple of days due to the hassle of "tethering myself". Gotta say that, the painlessness of TimeMachine to NAS saved my ass, this weekend. I'd gotten back from a client site, on Friday, and had hooked up to my network that night. My MBP immediately began to sync itself back up and then every hour after that. I was a little less than 20 pages into a document I was writing for my customer, Sunday, when my logic board decided to fry itself and take the hard drive with it. I was able to drop my MBP off at the Apple store, Sunday and pick it up Monday evening with a replacement logic board and hard drive. I kicked up a TimeMachine restore Monday night and got all but the last 45 minutes worth of data back. The only thing I had to reinstall was Fusion because, apparently, TimeMachine doesn't quite get the permissions right (so, I was getting "can't connect to peer" errors when I attempted to start my VMs). But, I'm back online and cranking on my document with only the loss of two days of work time.
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The Dv8or
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clubs: | You dont find it a total bitch to back up your VM files? There's no easy way to back up a local 20GB file.
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nixen
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| said by The Dv8or  :You dont find it a total bitch to back up your VM files? There's no easy way to back up a local 20GB file. I have my VMs broken up into 2GB files. My biggest issue is with missing/truncated snapshots, apparently. My running VMs crashed and couldn't save their open snapshot files. Googled around and found that was solvable by renaming the {VMFILE}.vmsd file to {VMFILE}.vmsn.
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bbarrera
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clubs: | Curious how you combine those 2GB virtual hard drives into a single volume under Windows? For Linux wild guess is that LVM would do the trick although I haven't messed around with LVM and always kept things simple. |
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sporkme
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| said by bbarrera :Curious how you combine those 2GB virtual hard drives into a single volume under Windows? VMWare itself handles this. I have no idea what the performance difference is between one big file and many little files though...
My question is how the hell did nixen get the thing repaired in 24 hours??
edit: thought I'd already attached the pic - the split files option comes up in the wizard. |
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nixen
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| said by sporkme :said by bbarrera :Curious how you combine those 2GB virtual hard drives into a single volume under Windows? VMWare itself handles this. I have no idea what the performance difference is between one big file and many little files though... My question is how the hell did nixen get the thing repaired in 24 hours?? Dunno. My company paid for the 3-year top-end warranty, I guess.
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acadiel
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| reply to nixen
Yep, I just got mine backing up to my FreeNas by following the instructions on this webpage: (for the ReadyNas)
»www.readynas.com/?p=253
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vukodlak75
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said by bbarrera :Curious how you combine those 2GB virtual hard drives into a single volume under Windows? Why would you have to? Vmware for Windows should be able to handle it.
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bbarrera
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clubs: | That was pointed out by sporkme already. |
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vukodlak75
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clubs: | Sleep deprivation, sorry. |
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bbarrera
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| Thankfully nobody told me to RTFM. Rather be told twice that I'm an idiot and missed it in the VM creation wizard. Pretty much been running the same VMs since Fusion beta, but recently created Ubuntu and WS2003 so I must be the sleep deprived one as I totally missed the 'split disk into 2GB files' |
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