On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:27 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Backups are important. I see where VMware allows me to take a snapshot of > the server and would think this would be the simplest way to run backups.
I would strongly caution you against using VMware's snapshots for anything but the ability to rollback changes quickly after you make a change you're not sure won't screw things up. They will slow down your VMware instance _tremendously_, if one even exists on the VM. The reason this is is that all changes after the snapshot is taken are stored as a delta to the last snapshot, and any file access has to grab the file from the snapshot, then apply the accumulated deltas. As I said, they're fine temporarily, so you can verify that a change works as expected, but get rid of the snapshot as quickly as you reasonably can. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
