Questions tagged [snapshot]
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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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Hyper-V snapshot/checkpoint behavior with physical hard disk
What is the behavior of the snapshot/checkpoint feature in Hyper-V when there are physical hard disks attached to the virtual machine? I have a virtual machine with four physical disks passed through ...
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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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How to access a ZFS zvol SNAPSHOT block device?
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 box running ZFS. I'm using the zfs-auto-snapshot script to create regular snapshots. Included in my ZFS setup is a ZVOL block device. I want to access (read-only) a ...
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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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VirtualBox vdi not growing over 32 GB, NS_ERROR_CALL_FAILED when trying to delete snapshot
I am running VirtualBox 5.2.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. The quest system is Win 10 64-bit.
At some point guest went jammed because vdi disk of dynamic size 100GB refused to grow over 32GB. I have ...
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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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Is there a ZFS-aware diff?
I often make snapshots of a ZFS volume (containing AOSP) make some changes (often extracting ZIP files over then top, or running scripts) and then run diff to see what has changed.
This is really ...
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VMWare warns about consolidation after cancelling snapshot creation
I'm using VMWare vSphere client on Windows 10 to connect to my company DC (OVH).
I wanted to create a snapshot of a VM (Debian) before updating the packages.
So I tried to create a snapshot of a ...
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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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Btrfs automatically bitrot correction with snapshots?
I want to set up a notebook (debian) with 1 SSD and 1 HDD each with Luks and Btrfs on it. Because the SSD and the HDD doesn't have the same speed, i don't want to use Btrfs' Raid-1 on it, but i also ...
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Chrome extension to save all downloaded media for the current page
I know of winhttrack but it doesn't go well with javascript.
Is there a Google extension that will save all the ressources that have been downloaded since you're visiting a site in a tab ?
(all the ...
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How do I set up a bootable incremental ZFS-on-root backup on a seperate drive?
I installed antergos Linux with ZFS-on-root. The system is up and running and I’m glad because that alone is a success for me. Now apparently ZFS is mainly for NAS, RAID, Server configs etc. (and I ...
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How to setup a Ubuntu server 16.04 host machine, for running several virtual machines
i need some help with setting up my host machine for running virtual servers on ubuntu server.
I have a server with 4x2TB SAS which are in raid6 using raid adapter (dell perc h730p).
The idea is to ...
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How do I revert to latest external snapshot in KVM?
I have created an external snapshot with KVM using
virsh snapshot-create-as domain --name snap1 --disk-only
Then, I started the domain with “virsh start domain”. I know that reverting to external ...
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