Archivo de 19 Febrero 2008

Time Machine and Virtual Machines

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A small detail about Time Machine I hadn’t thought about before: this article recommends removing all the virtual disks from virtual machines like VMWare, Virtual Box, et al. from the backup.

Makes sense: Time Machine works at a file level, in the end it’s just something like this but with an über-posh interface. So every time you boot one of your VMs, some small change will inevitably be made on some file inside it, causing Time Machine to store a new copy of the full virtual disk.

fonebridge2 Case Study

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Some days ago, a representative of Redfone Communications got in touch with me because of a HOWTO I wrote some months ago about building Asteirsk clusters with the fonebridge2: they liked it and wanted me to write a Case Study about the cluster I built at my previous job.

The Case Study has just been published and is available here: