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AWS Instance Created from Snapshot Failing "Instance reachability check"

I have a dev environment hosted by AWS (t2.large, RHEL 7.4) that is backed up with a snapshot every couple of hours. Today, I tried to create a new instance from one of those snapshots to run some ...
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What should happen if I delete files in a BtrFS snapshot?

I have an openSUSE computer that started with BtrFS early (like Leap 42.2). At one moment in the past the /tmp subvolume had become full (one big file) and I was not able to recover space until reboot ...
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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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Is it possible to save browser tab, including javascript variables, content of form fields, cookies, etc. for offline viewing later?

I'm trying to save a state of card in browser (preferably firefox or chrome). Is it possible? Something like snapshot in VirtualBox. Let's say I'm using javascript app that doesn't have save feature ...
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I moved a VM with snapshots and I now cant recover from snapshot

I moved a Virtual Machine and it's files to another pc (moved, not cloned), and now I can't recover from snapshots. I have all the files (of the VM) but no snapshots shown in the program. I need to ...
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Shadow Copies are properly created, but in Explorer I can’t access to “previous versions” (reported as not available)

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit: I always utilized the shadow copies, not only to restore the OS to a previous version: I mainly use the shadow copies to restore single files, by using the "Previous ...
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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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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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virtualbox snapshot - is it a safe back-up if I want to over-write (dd to) sda1?

I want to do some testing useing chroot to overwrite sda1 (my main partition) in a ubuntu VM. Is taking a virtualbox snapshot a safe way to create a backup? i.e. in the VM I want to create a chroot ...
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Btrfs copy snapshot with rsync

So I have been searching for this up and down, but must be doing something fundamentally wrong. What I want to do: I have configured my NAS to make snapshots of my home folder, file system is btrfs. ...
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Suggestion on how to consolidate VMWare VM snapshots

I was given a copy of a VM with many snapshots. The size of the folder that contains the VM is about 200GB and there is about 371 snapshots in it. ls | grep [.]vmdk | wc 372 372 14513 I ...
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How to convert Virtualbox VM into KVM VM, with latest snapshot included?

I have been trying to change my existing Virtualbox VMs (.vdi) into .qcow2 format and run it on KVM. I have successfully done the conversion (.vdi > .qcow2) but, the converted VM is not in the same ...
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Taking a snapshot of a demo environment

I am using a 27" Late 2015 iMac. I have a set of applications and websites that I use as part of a demo. Currently, I have to manually load everything at the beginning of the demo and make a set of ...
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