Davii wrote:I assumed snapshots took a copy of the vhd and the original vhd continued to be the master...
...I figured it must be quicker to use the host for extracting data from the vhd
Wrong assumptions.
Davii wrote:The data on the vhd was in user's directory, so I took ownership of the directory
Wrong move.
Davii wrote:I have no backup of the original vhd.
Wrong strategy.
But you know what your biggest "omission" in this whole adventure was? That you didn't try it first. You didn't create a test VM to see how snapshots behave, how VHDs get mounted, what it all means. And all of that without a backup! Because it was faster:
Davii wrote:It was only 30 hours' work
I bet now that the 2 hours you would have spent testing the above theories/behavior would seem like a better choice...
But fear not. Be saddened not! If it was
only 300 hours that I've lost in the course of doing the
exact same mistakes as you (and worse), I would be a much happier camper...
Davii wrote: Classic case of EBCAD (Error Between Chair And Desk)
I had never heard of EBCAD, but I have heard of PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair). A quick search lead to the
User Error Wikipedia article, which had the following gem:
Related terms such as PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair), ID-10T error (idiot error), PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer), IBM error (Idiot Behind Machine error) and other similar phrases...
I really loved the "ID-10T" and the "IBM" ones...
@mpack
mpack wrote:Lucky you that you didn't have like 50 snapshots hanging from it
Do you remember the largest amount of snapshots that we've seen? I believe it was in the neighborhood of 125. Or was it 175? Definitely more than 100, about 4 years back. Even the .vbox file was more than 1 MB!!! I need to find that post and have it as an example of what not to do...