[ale] File recovery

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 15:35 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> VM were not on backup. Local snapshots were on disk. Supposed to be
> demo and testbed stuff but apparently not all was disposable.

Steeerike Two!

Never fails.  You set something up just to get it running and, six
months later, you discover people have plugged it into the production
path and there are SLA's depending on it.  Never fails.  And people use
to bitch about my objections to setting things up "just for a demo and
testbed".

Regards,
Mike

> On Jan 5, 2014 2:51 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>         What type of backups do you have? Whole VM backups or file
>         level? I assume they were on a datastore on local disk?
>         
>           
>         From: Jim Kinney [mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com] 
>         Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 01:12 PM Central Standard Time
>         To: Atlanta User Group (E-mail) <ale at ale.org> 
>         Subject: [ale] File recovery 
>          
>         
>         
>         Haven't had to do this in a while so I'm looking for ideas.
>         
>         VMware ESX host rebooted. The bios was set to pxeboot. The
>         pxeboot process it picked up installed Fedora19 over the ESX.
>         
>         sigh
>         
>         Looking for recommendations for tool chains for VM recovery.
>         I'm not expecting much success but trying to balance
>         reconstruct time vs recovery time.
>         
>         
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