Questions tagged [snapshot]
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Vmware: accidentally restored the snapshot how to restore original state?
I had restored accidentally restored the vsphere snapshot how to recover to original state?
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How to determine VirtualBox vm has finished snapshot restore
I have a ubuntu host and a windows 10 guest using virtualbox.
And I have written a bash script to control my vm.
I want to shutdown my vm and restore snapshot, then restart it.
But here is a question.
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How to make a snapshot of a Linux block device
It is well documented how to make snapshots of LVM volumes but how can I make a snapshot of, say, a hard-drive partition? I often wish I can do this when I need to access a disk read-only but there ...
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How can I save VLC snapshots in the video's path?
I know you can set the path where snapshots are saved in VLC Player's preferences. What I want is to save the snapshots not all in one fixed directory, but in the video's directory, provided of course ...
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How to make a snapshot while qemu is running?
Since a fresh booting of the guest OS is very slow, or it is laborious to arrive at a particular machine state, what I want is something like Windows' hibernation: Qemu saves the current state of the ...
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How can I snapshot a VM before booting it for the first time?
I'm running MS trial VM images which are time limited, based on initial boot. MS recommend you store a copy of the downloaded image or take a snapshot before booting:
But how can you snapshot a VM ...
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How to take full webpage screenshots with no size or length limit? (really long pages)
How can I take full webpage screenshots with no size or length limit? I want to screenshot the search results on eBay with 200 items in view but it cuts off.
I have tried Firefox, Edge and Chrome's ...
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rebase virtualbox snapshot to another parent
I'm excessively using VirtualBox snapshots (for use in CI-builders), so typically I have a number of snapshots on a single VM.
Often I find my self "forking" a new snapshot from an existing ...
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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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Is there a windows 10 equivalent for Apple Time Machine?
I made a machine for my mother who is not computer savvy.
For that purpose I googled "Time Machine equivalent for windows" and found Genie Time line and really wasted my money on that...
My ...
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Is stopping a VM before taking its snapshot best practice?
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I tend to save my VirtualBox VM snapshots while the system is running. This shaves off some time when I resume next work's session.
But I have read in a few places that the best thing to do ...
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How to remove a snapper config when getting error “deleting snapshot failed”?
I am using snapper to take snapshots of btrfs volumes. I have one for /var as well, but decided that I want to get rid of it. It corresponds to the _var snapper config. I can't manage to do this, ...
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Make Snapshot of Main OS
Can I make snapshot(something like that) of my main os/host machine(Which in this case is parrot os) ? Because when I use my parrot within a month or so I end up with broken os(because of my tinkering)...
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Can I continue use my VMware Workstation virtual machine before a snapshot completed?
I'm using VMware Workstation on Windows. When I create a snapshot while my guest VM is running, it will take long time (probably more than 10 minutes) to complete the whole process. During this period,...
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How to mount System Volume using APFS snapshot
I am not able to mount System Volume (root) using APFS. I only see my Data Volume.
$ mkdir /tmp/snapshotbackup_root
$ mount_apfs -s com.apple.TimeMachine.2019-10-29-174444.local / /tmp/...
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