Hello, my name is Levi.
I have had a problem, admittedly of my own creation, and I really
really dont want to loose the data i had.
I have been using virtualbox for a while now, and i had a problem
when i first started using it, where the snapshots would pile up, I
took snapshots for the same reason i did most recently, to back up my
data (or so i thought). this is not the case for snapshots it appears.
this made it so i soon ran out of space on the disk i had the install
on /home/virtualbox i then relized that even if the disk size is set
the snapshots can take up an infinite amount if allowed. so i stuck in
a 300 gig and put it on there.
i dont know how the rest happened. i hear that the amd64 version of
debian has issues with maintaining drive assignments at mount time
when u reboot. but somehow the files ended back up in /home/virtualbox
instead of /media/sdd2. eh? dunno, dont care at the moment. i just
want my data.
so before i rebooted (i was up and running for 39 days no reboot) i
stopped virtualbox and turned off windoze, with the hopes it would
save my data. i thought that it wrote the changes to the main vdi file
when you shut the machine off. this isnt the case.
so i move the files back to the mount they should be on, and delete
the virtual machine off, and load up the other one, with of course a
chorus of errors, i finally got it to boot windows, but i am missing
all the changes i made from my very first snapshot (3 months ago). so
i must have all the changes i made on the snapshots.
is there a command line tool i can use to put the data into the vdi
file? i just want the data back in the original, because i dont know
how to tell virtualbox how to register the snapshots from the
pre-moved folder. *sigh*
so if there is a tool, or anything, i can use to recover the data
off the snapshots please help me out.
thanks a ton,
-=Levi=-
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