@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:

@scottalanmiller said in KVM and Back Ups:

@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:

@scottalanmiller said in KVM and Back Ups:

@dafyre said in KVM and Back Ups:

In my experience with it, it has often corrupted randomly and to the point that it's own snapshots are no help, nor are VMware Snapshots.

How could it correct VMware snapshots?

I guess it's more that BtrFS doesn't detect the corruption early enough and our VMware snapshot are nothing but snapshots of corrupt data... That's about the only way I can explain it.

General risk with hypervisor level backups. This is a huge reason for either local file based or what I call devops backups. They are at a higher level, so there is way more opportunity for this.

But if the system was okay when you took the VMware snap, it should have been okay when you restored it. Regardless of corruption.

Yeah, exactly.... and this is why Snapshots are not a backup!

Snapshots absolutely are the backup mechanism.

@tim_g said in Beginner's Guide to KVM Administration:

@fateknollogee said in Beginner's Guide to KVM Administration:

@dustinb3403 said in Beginner's Guide to KVM Administration:

ssh-keygen -t rsa
The above generates the rsa keys required to connect without a password.

I'm using ecdsa (instead of rsa) per this info: Choosing an Algorithm & Key Size
ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 521

Nice. That's the equivalent to 15,360 bit RSA!

I want to see if e everything I use including GitLab can support that.

From my reading, it should.

@scottalanmiller said in Has Anyone Played with KVM-VDI?:

@Seitan said in Has Anyone Played with KVM-VDI?:

@dafyre yes, you can create regular machines - they are called "simple machines". But still KVM-VDI is more vdi oriented.

Since the KVM market lacks a good, solid, standard GUI management option like XenServer has in XenOrchestra, that might be a spot that KVM-VDI makes more sense than you might think at first glance.

That is why I was asking. I've got WebVirtmgr on my hosted system and it's... okay. It does the job, at least.