Stefano Marinelli on Nostr: I appreciate bhyve for many reasons, but this afternoon, I have to give a shout-out ...

I appreciate bhyve for many reasons, but this afternoon, I have to give a shout-out to Proxmox.
I had to urgently recover some VPS from a server that had a breakdown, ensuring minimal disruption, and I had very little time.

Thanks to live restore, I managed to get both critical servers (each several hundred GB) up and running in just a few minutes, while copying the missing data in the background and restoring the rest at my own pace.

I can achieve similar results (if the original server is still operational) using snapshots, zfs-send, and zfs-receive, stopping, taking another snapshot, another send and incremental receive, then starting – or by sending and receiving from the backup server. However, you still need to wait for the copy to complete before starting the VM, which could take hours.

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