so first off im a esxi noob and dont well understand how snapshots and delta files work. i realize i made a noob mistake
anyways I have a VM and I just realized I've been running the last 4 months as a snapshot. I decide I dont want it running as a snapshot so I select to delete the snapshot but half through the process i realize this a bad idea and click cancel. My VM still works but now its back to the state it was 4 months ago from before i created the snapshot. However in the directory, i still have the snapshot vmdk (delta) file. Heres the list files i have in the directory:
serverfiles.vmdk
serverfiles-flat.vmdk
serverfiles-00001.vmdk
serverfiles-00001-sesparse.vmdk
I'm not sure why its a sesparse instead of delta. maybe something to do with the botched snapshot cancellation, i dont know. So I want to try and recover the data that was in the snapshot delta file or winscp the delta file from my esxi to my pc and somehow extract it manually (maybe with poweriso?). Is there any hope or am I SOL?
anyways I have a VM and I just realized I've been running the last 4 months as a snapshot. I decide I dont want it running as a snapshot so I select to delete the snapshot but half through the process i realize this a bad idea and click cancel. My VM still works but now its back to the state it was 4 months ago from before i created the snapshot. However in the directory, i still have the snapshot vmdk (delta) file. Heres the list files i have in the directory:
serverfiles.vmdk
serverfiles-flat.vmdk
serverfiles-00001.vmdk
serverfiles-00001-sesparse.vmdk
I'm not sure why its a sesparse instead of delta. maybe something to do with the botched snapshot cancellation, i dont know. So I want to try and recover the data that was in the snapshot delta file or winscp the delta file from my esxi to my pc and somehow extract it manually (maybe with poweriso?). Is there any hope or am I SOL?