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How to prevent GRUB from scanning lvm snapshot?
My root file system is a LVM2 logic volume, and there are few snapshots of it beside.
Every time when I run update-grub, it always add menu entries for those snapshots as if they are normal volumes. ...
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What is the purpose of snapshots in virtualisation software?
I've recently started using virtualisation software more often, specifically VirtualBox, and the idea of snapshots confuses me.
I understand that they give the user the ability to revert a VM to a ...
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Customize and sysprep modern.ie virtual machines say for VirtualBox?
Has anyone done this or know if possible and the steps? MS has VMs for testing IE on modern.ie site. They're clean base images one extract and imports into VM software of choice like VirtualBox to ...
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Snapshot of system without virtual machine
Background:
I am a software developer and work on several projects in parallel. Because of this, I use virtual desktops, one per project.
I never restart my computer - only hibernate or sleep - ...
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Create a snapshot of the Windows session this very moment [duplicate]
Is it possible to create a snapshot (just as VirtualBox does) of a real Windows system as of the state this very moment?
If I hibernate, RAM at the moment is dumped to the hard disk. Is it possible ...
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Windows app to grab webcam snapshots?
I want to periodically capture an image from a webcam attached to a Windows PC, and upload it to a Linux server on the network (preferably FTP, could be SFTP or even Samba).
The images have to be ...
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Taking snapshot of entire OS
I was wondering if anyone knew of free software to take an OS snapshot.
Something that would also compare and list the differences between the two different snapshots.
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Is there a way to snapshot a running process to disk to restore it later?
I usually work with a lot of instances of visual studio open to different projects, I was wondering if there is a way to snapshot/hibernate a running process to disk instead of closing it so that I ...
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How do I change the snapshots directory in VirtualBox on Windows?
I have a SSD Hard drive representing C:\, which is only 30GB.
Therefore, I install all my (non-critical) apps on my large G:\ drive. My VirtualBox installation is on G:\, as well as the hard disks....
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How best to compare huge directory trees
How can I compare directory trees of huge size?
I am thinking a free tool to make a snapshot of the filesystem structure (listing of files and directories, their size & timestamps) would be ideal ...
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