XP Box has gone back in time ...

[davidbutt1]

I have two clients running XP under OSX and in general they are very stable.

My second client has now experienced a situation whereby his VM seems to have gone back in time. As if he had chosen an earlier snapshot butt I don't believe he has.

My first client has had this happen three times butt as a less skilled operator I've assumed they were to blame ...

Have search for an explanation with no luck

Would love any feedback ...

thanx
db:)

[loukingjr]

Well are they using Windows Restore while in their guests? that would do it. They most likely shouldn't be using snapshots at all.

[mpack]

This has come up before. First off, if it isn't snapshots then VirtualBox has no other mechanism for remembering a past state of a disk. That leaves a host OS file history mechanism. A Mac expert will have to fill in the blanks.

[loukingjr]

This has come up before. First off, if it isn't snapshots then VirtualBox has no other mechanism for remembering a past state of a disk. That leaves a host OS file history mechanism. A Mac expert will have to fill in the blanks.

Unless they are using Time Machine for backups and are restoring back to an earlier date, same as if you did a Windows restore for an earlier date, there is nothing I can imagine that would cause it that is OSX specific.

[davidbutt1]

Thanx to all

I strongly suspect human intervention but am unable to prove it

The fact that no-one else see's this type of issue leaves me comfortable knowing it probably is a human issue and not a VB issue ...

thanx again
db:)