Yes. I used to think snapshots were the bomb, now I treat them as "use only when necessary and get rid of 'em as fast as you can". IMO snapshots increase disaster recovery complexity, and when doing DR the last thing you want is more complexity :-).
Dave "delete 'em as soon as is feasible" Lum -----Original Message----- From: Bill Humphries [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 6:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast. Good news. The snapshot took about 2 and a half hours, but finished successfully. The machine powered up. I checked one location on the file server and a new folder added today to the share was still there. So I think this should be a good indicator that the snapshot and server vmdk combined successfully. If anyone with more ESXi experience thinks I should check some other method, please let me know. Regarding the size of the snapshot, like I said I made a mistake and never deleted the snapshot when I was building the SBS. I think I created the snaphot before I migrated some shares, so that might explain the size. I don't typically use snapshots and thusly haven't really dug into how they work. To be honest I had assumed a snapshot would be a static vmdk of that point in time, but from this experience I now know that isn't the case. Thanks for all the assistance guys. Really. I just had a few minutes of freak out when it happened. The past couple of weeks I've neglected clients a bit. My dad passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, so life was suddenly filled with a lot of sad tasks and being there for mom. This client has been super understanding, but I didn't want to tell this client that I made a silly mistake and your new server is hosed. Everything is back up and everyone at client is now asking if I can make that happen every other Friday so they can go home early. Bill Sean Martin wrote: > Depends on how long the snapshot was active and the data change rate > of the server. That is why snapshots can be very dangerous. > > - Sean > > On Jan 20, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Its my understanding that this would be an indication of utilizing >> snapshots in an very inappropriate fashion - although I still cant >> fathom how you could get it *that* big. >> >> -- >> Espi >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Pretty big? That seem absolutely huge to me. Why would a >> snapshot be that big? >> >> -- >> Espi >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Heaton, Joseph@DFG >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> 300GB is a pretty big snapshot. >> >> Joe Heaton >> ITB - Windows Server Support >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bill Humphries [mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>] >> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:47 PM >> To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: did i screw up? need to fix fast. >> >> Almost 300 gig. >> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >> > Deleting snapshops can take awhile, especially if they're >> large. How >> > big was your snapshot? >> > >> > >> > Original Message: >> > ----------------- >> > From: Bill Humphries [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> > Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:02:57 -0500 >> > To: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> > Subject: did i screw up? need to fix fast. >> > >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I have a client running SBS 2011 on esxi 5 (free). The >> VMstopped >> > running and i got this error message: >> > >> > Message from esxi..company.local There is no more space for >> virtual >> > disk fezzik-000001.vmdk. >> > You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk >> space on >> > the relevant volume, and clicking Retry. Click Cancel to >> terminate >> > this session. >> > >> > >> > I clicked retry and it didn't work. I then clicked cancel >> and went to >> > delete the only existing snapshot to fee up space. Now I >> see no >> > options available under the power menu. the snapshot as >> been deleting >> > for 20 minutes and is at 80% now. >> > >> > I really need to get this machine back up quickly. 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