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Btrfs local Snapshots vs Incremental remote Backup
In a NAS context, I'm wondering about the pros of btrfs local snapshots when incremental remote backup is made on a remote server.
I'm also wondering about the interest to have both snapshots and ...
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Apache Ignite - Automatic Cluster Snapshot Create / Restore Procedure
When trying the Apache Ignite cluster snapshot procedure (snapshot create, restore), the restore operation is not successful.
Before the restore procedure, we have destroyed the cache which we want to ...
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borg backup is processing all files instead of modified
please advise how to correctly make borgbackup to process and copy only modified source files and their diffs to destination?
every week we make our data snapshot in cephfs:
/data/.snap/snap1/
/data/....
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Create snapshot in virsh for domain with two or more disks
I would like to back up the disks of a VM following the Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit procedure at Libvirt Wiki.
I create an external snapshot with
virsh snapshot-create-as --domain ...
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Vmware cannot create snapshot
I use Veeam to backup our servers, it has been running smoothly for years. Veeam creates a snapshot of the VM and than backs up this snapshot. After completion the backup job deletes the snapshot. Due ...
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Running du on timeshift folders give different results
My goal is to find which files/folders take the most space in a snapshot from the backup tool timeshift but, when using du it yields different results:
# du -hs *
18G 2018-09-21_16-14-57
910M ...
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How to perform application-consistent backup of Git repo
Imagine I have a bare Git repository on my own hosted server that is used by multiple folks for cloning, pushing, and pulling. What commands would be necessary to get such a repository into a state ...
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For automating a full backup of a VM, is exporting as an appliance better than cloning the VM?
I recently had a mishap on my VM, where for somereason the settings of my
BridgeNetwork got changed randomly. I had to spend quite a bit of time to
figure out the root cause. Rightnow, I manually copy ...
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Test if btrfs subvolume exists
I have a problem in a bash procedure, which should port my old rsync disk backup (and archive) to my future btrfs snapshot backup.
I want to use the line:
# btrfs subvolume snapshot /targetdir/@...
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Terminal fails to show the local snapshots on my computer
I typed
sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
in terminal and entered the password. However, nothing happened. I suppose terminal to return all local snapshots on my computer, but it only returns xxxs-...
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Can I export appliance with all the snapshots in VirtualBox (Version 5.1.28)?
I use Oracle VM VirtualBox Version 5.1.28 r117968 (Qt5.6.2) . I have two virtual machines (Windows 7 64bit and Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS) with 8 snapshots in Windows and 6 snapshots in Ubuntu. I want to have ...
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How much data is transferred in case of zfs send with incremental snapshots?
My scenario is two servers in a hot-standby setup using ZFS to host VMs and using ZFS incremental snapshots for replication of changes to the VMs from one server to the other using something like zrep ...
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How to get NTFS like snapshot behaviour in BTRFS?
I would like to use BTRFS to host VMs in VirtualBox to be able to use Snapshots without LVM or such. In theory I don't need CoW behaviour all the time because of performance reasons and using ...
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Is quiescing a VM during a backup necessary for a consistent snapshot of the filesystem?
Do I need to 'quiesce' a running VM to get a consistent snapshot of the disk at a point in time?
I do not care if there are unwritten buffers or if a running application is consistent with the disk. ...
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How do I clone a running VMware Workstation?
I have a running virtual machine with a task that cannot be turned off. I tried to snapshot it but unfortunately, it won't allow me to use a snapshot that is powered on to create a new cloning machine....
