[FX.php List] Do RackSpace "Snapshots" conform to Best Practices?

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Perfect!  Just the feedback I was looking for.

In this case, it is a third party India-based developer company with 
no FileMaker experience that is challenging the need to shutdown FMS, 
even though I have explained that the risk is high and the cost of 
downtime low.

I knew I could count on my fellow fx.php'rs.

Jonathan



>I don't know, I haven't dealt with hot-adding memory to a virtual 
>machine so I can't say whether this snapshot stuff they talk about 
>is something of concern or not.
>
>What I would say though is that regardless of how *they* do things 
>you should have your own backup of the data on that machine, so it 
>can easily be restored if they fail.
>
>One would think that they know what they're doing and that it's not 
>the first time they've done this on a VM they maintain :o
>
>In any case I don't see why they or you cannot just shut the machine 
>down, change memory, and then turn it on again. Have them do that 
>and there shouldn't be much to worry about. If they refuse, switch 
>to another hosting provider :)
>
>
>9 mar 2012 kl. 19.20 skrev Jonathan Schwartz:
>
>>  Hi Folks,
>>
>>  I need a quick weigh-in from FileMaker experts on the list.
>>
>>  One of my clients has moved FileMaker Web Publishing to third 
>>party RackSpace, which uses virtual servers under Windows.
>>
>>  After a week of trying to run FMS on only 2gb ram, they have 
>>agreed to upgrade the instance to 4gb.  The upgrade process 
>>consists of an automated system that takes a "snapshot" of the 
>>server and then rewrites the "snapshot" once the memory has been 
>>upgraded.
>>
>>  I contend that taking the "snapshot" is the same as copying live 
>>FIleMaker Server files, and in violation of FileMaker Server Best 
>>Practices.  I am urging them to shut down FileMaker Server and do 
>>the upgrade with it shut down.  Others are saying the the 
>>"snapshot" approach is OK.
>>
>>  Does anyone have experience with snapshots or RackSpace or both?
>>
>>  Need a quick answer, as I am standing on the tracks refusing to 
>>budge....for the good of the data. ;-)
>>
>>  Thanks
>>
>>  Jonathan
>>
>>
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