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loosing data after revert to snapshot? posted: Nov 6, 2009 1:37 AM

Click to view mackop's profile Novice 14 posts since
May 3, 2009

What is the best approach to solve problems like this: Let's say, I have a mail server VM.

1. I am planning to upgrade the mail server, so I take snapshot to have something to revert to in case of disaster.

2. I upgrade the mail server.

3. I leave it working for some time to be sure that there is no problem with the upgrade ... mail server is receiving emails.

4. If everything is working fine, I delete the snapshot.

What if I want to revert to the snapshot? Meanwhile the mail server received some emails, so if I revert to snapshot I loose those emails. Obviously, I cannot loose any emails.

Thank you for any suggestions

Re: loosing data after revert to snapshot?

1. Nov 6, 2009 1:46 AM in response to: mackop
Click to view AndreTheGiant's profile Guru 5,942 posts since
Aug 28, 2008
What if I want to revert to the snapshot? Meanwhile the mail server received some emails, so if I revert to snapshot I loose those emails. Obviously, I cannot loose any emails.
Yes, you loose your mail.
If you have more virtual disk you can consider to use indipendent disk to do not make snap on selected disk.
Or you can take a backup of your mailbox before revert the snapshot and then you restore those data.

Andre

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