Somehow, my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS running in VirtualBox 4.1.18 (W7 Host) got stuck.. and I closed the machine.
Now when I start up the VM again, it reverts back to my last snapshot which is more than 20 days old. Fortunately I have a quite recent backup of my important data, but still, this is very annoying.. What could the problem be and is there a way to get my data back?
Our mysql ibdata1 file was deleted earlier today. This wasn't noticed until mysqld was restarted and there was no data in the tables. The machine is a CentOs VM in Xenserver. At this point a snapshot was taken. Then the mysql database was dropped and restored from a backup.
I'm trying to use Eric Hammond's ec2-consistent-snapshot utility on a dedicated mysql server.
I've created an IAM user and attached a power user permission policy (using the AWS console).
On a 32bit Ubuntu 10.10 ec2 instance and an XFS volume, I have installed ec2-consistent-snapshot following these instructions : http://alestic.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?blog_id=1&tag=ec2-consistent-snapshot&
The --merge option says
Can I reliably take a snapshot of the origin whilst a merge of an old snapshot into the origin is in progress
The man page says :"While the merge is in progress, reads or writes to the origin appear as they were directed to the snapshot being merged."
However, it's not clear how safe it is to take a snapshot here.
I know I could operate on the snap and discard - bu
We've been using Win2008R2's AD Snapshot feature to perform a nightly backup of our AD domain. I'm trying to figure out the steps that I need to run through to use one of these nightly backups to restore our AD domain on a 2nd server.
These are the commands we used to backup the AD DOM:
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after creating a VSS snapshot I'd like to be able to query the USN journal.
There's a command in the AWS EC2 API called ec2-register or ec2reg which has an argument -s for snapshot ID. You are able to create an image from a snapshot. I'd like to be able to do this in Python (currently using boto), but it doesn't look like it's built in functionality within boto yet. Is there still a way using boto to create an image from a snapshot id?
I have a need to write to a VirtualBox guest's harddrive after a snapshot is taken (I cannot modify the original backing file (VDI, dd, whatever).
Hi fellas,
I have a file that contains text something like this
Code:
SNAPSHOT snap-021ede4a vol-bc3f89c0 completed 2012-11-19T06:05:26+0000 100% 170495546006 850 Created by CreateImage(i-6adc0515) for ami-977dfafe from vol-bc3f89c0
TAG snapshot snap-021ede4a project PAC
TAG snapshot snap-021ede4a Name AWSVA-ADPACLD01V
TAG snapshot snap-021ede4a environment DEV
SNAPSHOT snap-02456b66 vol-c54
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