If your VM disintegrates and you don’t have a backup, it is your problem. The data gods simply don’t care if you have backups or not.
“It takes too much storage” – Come on man.“Everything is on Github” – That may be true except for little things such as.“I’m too busy” – It is easy to get so wrapped up in meeting deadlines and working with projects from hell that time slips by and, despite your best intentions, you don’t do a regular backup.For whatever reason, they recovered and never got on the backup bandwagon. They might have even lost a job or contract because of that. These are the type of people who have previously lost a VM and failed to have a backup. They have been bitten but they are slow learners.The crushing feeling of hundreds, if not thousands of hours of work being obliterated has a profound effect on a dev’s psyche. They haven’t been bitten yet – Backups don’t seem important in the scheme of things until you suddenly realize that your virtual machine will not load.There are a number of reasons that someone might neglect to backup their VMs or excuses they might offer: Why backups are not performed (Excuses and reasons) Or to put it another way, Whack-a-mole on an epic scale. Quite often the life of a developer is constant chaos and crisis management. When you run a virtual machine on a host machine, a failure of either can cause you to lose countless hours of development and configuration work. BEWARE – There are at least two points of failure For example, you can create a virtual machine running Ubuntu and, with Virtualbox, run that under windows. Many developers run tools such as Oracle’s Virtualbox to run another operating system. BUT are you backing up your virtual machines? Overview of Virtualbox and virtual machines. Virtualbox by Oracle is a fantastic tool for creating and using virtual machines. Last Updated on Septemby Christopher G Mendla
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