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I’ve talked about starting a blog for a long time. My Skee-Ball project made me do it

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So you want to restore a Proxmox VM from an array snapshot?

So you’ve been using array based snapshots for your “backups” on your KVM based cloud? Don’t lie I know you’ve been doing it. Your DR plan involves some shoestring and bubble gum. Maybe some duct tape? I know I’ve done it too. Everything untested just have the data somewhere and some hope that you can…

lvm and xcopy

Does anyone else remember when XCOPY via VAAI was released on vSphere? How cool it was to offload the copy of a VM to the array. It only got cooler as the storage vendors figured out how to not actually need to copy the data but just point to the data. Clones went from having…

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