TheWaterGod@lemmy.caM to Tech Support Memes@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 个月前So, what’s your back out plan?lemmy.caimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down11
arrow-up1153arrow-down1imageSo, what’s your back out plan?lemmy.caTheWaterGod@lemmy.caM to Tech Support Memes@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 个月前message-square11fedilink
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 个月前You should do real backups, that won’t get corrupted by the same changes that corrupts your main system. If you have some external dependency that takes your VM down, the image will be down too.
minus-squaregroet@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 个月前You should have multiple backups, at least one which is on a different medium/different location. Its absolutely fine to have a backup on the same machine, even the same hard drive as the working copy. As long as it is not the only one. VM snapshots are a backup! Change my mind!
minus-squarewizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 个月前What? If your hypervisor shits the bed, you have bigger problems.
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You should do real backups, that won’t get corrupted by the same changes that corrupts your main system.
If you have some external dependency that takes your VM down, the image will be down too.
You should have multiple backups, at least one which is on a different medium/different location. Its absolutely fine to have a backup on the same machine, even the same hard drive as the working copy. As long as it is not the only one.
VM snapshots are a backup! Change my mind!
What? If your hypervisor shits the bed, you have bigger problems.