Snapshosts and fixed storage

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mpack
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Re: Snapshosts and fixed storage

Post by mpack »

loukingjr wrote:Had he cloned the VM and managed not to copy that to his new drive he would be no better off.
I've never heard of anyone making that mistake.
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Re: Snapshosts and fixed storage

Post by loukingjr »

mpack wrote:
loukingjr wrote:Had he cloned the VM and managed not to copy that to his new drive he would be no better off.
I've never heard of anyone making that mistake.
well, he said he didn't end up copying the VDI even though he thought he did. It's not much differant. I recently had to restore my computer and forgot I had excluded my VB folders to save space on the backup drive so of course I had no backups of my guests except for the ones I created on a different drive. stuff happens.
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