But Maria knew: rolling back would mean losing 467 days of transaction logs. The company would miss quarterly filings.
Maria documented everything and added a new rule: No snapshot older than 72 hours without a consolidation plan. She also wrote an internal tool called delta-forensics to map block dependencies across a chain. restore vmware from delta vmdk
At 6:00 AM, the clone finished. She attached the new VMDK to a test VM. It booted. FSck was clean. She mounted the DB—all transactions present. But Maria knew: rolling back would mean losing
The corrupted block? It belonged to a deleted temp table from 200 days ago. Nothing of value lost. restore vmware from delta vmdk
She couldn’t skip it. The VM would boot but corrupt data silently.