Questions tagged [snapshot]
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Does ZFS support something like "nodatacow" of BTRFS?
This is a follow up to a former question about BTRFS and in the end I want to have a file system supporting at least the manual creation of snapshots for backup and test purposes. The data I'm hosting ...
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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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VM very slow after snapshot recover
We have here a Citrix XenCenter with few Virtualized machines. So last week we had to recover a VM from an old snapshot (the current one got lost because of a miss configuration in file permissions). ...
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Export a VM with the snapshots?
I have a machine with snapshots at different key points in the configuration.
Now I need to back up this VM, with its snapshots, to another machine.
I tried the "Export" function, but the .ova file ...
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Taking a VmWare Player snapshot
Just wondering, can you take a snapshot from a free VMWare Player Virtual Machine (VM)?
Or is it just for the commercial versions
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Why does the default UI menu bar for "Machine->Save State" is unchecked in VirtualBox?
You get to the option of changing the VM's menu bar (aka File menu) UI by right clicking on a VM -> Settings... -> User Interface
Is there any special reason for that?
Is there a reason not to save ...
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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 can you minimise the time to copy development Hyper-V VM's?
How can you minimise the time to copy development Hyper-V VM's?
I have a number of Hyper-V VM's which I want to regularly move between two machines ... one in work, the other at home
I can shut down ...
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Using MySQL and LxD over Btrfs
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 workstation, with an ext4 filesystem.
When playing with LxD, I would like to have a lightening-fast snapshoting ability (since my images would usually be big). This ability, in ...
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Deleted AutoProtect snapshots and can't boot VM's
I've had 3 VM's running AutoProtect fine for several months but decided it was pointless and wanted to disable it.
I also simultaneously wanted to enable Persistent Independent disk access. I wasn't ...
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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....
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Using vlc to batch generate snapshots say every 2-3 minutes or os?
Is there a way to batch generate snapshots every 2-3 minutes or so in Debian. I have a video of approximately 15 minutes and while I could use hotekey 's' to manually generate snapshots . Using vlc 2....
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Can I backup a running virtualbox Virtual machine?
I am currently running a time consuming python script on a virtual machine(It has been running for ~95 hours at the moment). I have no idea how long it will take to complete and am running it on a VM ...
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How to create a snapshot of current ubuntu installed programs, so that I can copy it to another fresh installation of ubuntu?
I have some installed programs on Ubuntu on my remote server (which I have root access to it). Now I need to install a fresh Ubuntu on some other machine/server, and I don't want to go through ...
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How to make (and restore) an application snapshot in runtime?
I'm trying to make a snapshot of a running application, in runtime, and restore it afterwards. By 'snapshot' I mean complete state of my application - I suppose that's just memory pages and CPU ...
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