After removing a drive, how does ESXi 4.1 know what snapshot from

Hello

I just had an incident after removing a disc and when adding this back, the disc seems to have got mixed up, and some of the files are returned 2 weeks ago.

The disc was a snapshot of the / 3 gb and 100 GB drive. ESXi 4.1 using

After retiring, I chose the 100 GB vmdk. The drive seems to have picked up the snapshot. but for some reason, the disc is returned 2 weeks ago.

In the Snapshot Manager, that she showed the snapshot, so I guess he did pick it up, but he said that you are here and the snapshot was above him, but for some reason any missed another two weeks of data.

Is it possible that remove the drive and adding it actually caused? or is it possible that it was just a glitch of a different kind?

Would appreciate cause advice, he took two other developers and me all day to recover the loss of data and need to know how to avoid it next time.

Kindof afraid of creating snapshots now.

Thank you in advance.

Aaron.

Welcome to the community,

your original question - lose two weeks of data--was probably caused by removing and adding the virtual disk. Snapshots of VMware are used in a chain, which means, if you take a snapshot, vmdk (s) parent is considered read-only and all the changes go to the last snapshot vmdk. This means the VM (vmx) configuration file has to point at the last instant vmdk rather than at the base vmdk. When you add a virtual disk existing using the GUI, you cannot select the instant vmdk. What you need to do in this case, is to add the vmdk from parent and that - before starting the VM - edit the vmx file and replace the reference to the virtual disk with the last snapshot vmdk. After changing the vmx file, please reboot the virtual machine (remove inventory + add to inventory).

André

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