Questions tagged [snapshot]
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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 are the Vagrant limitations for VMware disks with snapshots?
The docs are a bit cryptic about this:
If snapshots exist for a VM, disk functionality will be limited.
What limitations does Vagrant impose exactly on a VMware VM that has snapshots?
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How to rollback a specific directory in ZFS snapshot?
Is it possible to rollback to a certain directory within a snapshot? For example, given the snapshot tank/home@snapshot_week_01 can I rollback to something like tank/home/louis@snapshot_week_01 ...
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Is there a Snipping tool for WIndows XP
Is there a tool available for Windows XP which is similar to the Snipping Tool for Windows 7?
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Btrfs snapshots are empty
I am using btrbk to make snapshots of my @home subvolume, but the snapshots are empty, zero bytes.
I think I need to automount home, somehow.
I see in the Btrfs Assistant File Viewer that the root ...
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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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How to unmount /home on a BTRFS system?
In order to restore a BTRFS snapshot of /home, on NixOS, the Wiki says to first unmount /home.
"home must be unmounted for this operation"
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Btrfs
So my question is how ...
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How extract currently displayed frame with ffmpeg?
I'm conducting a test with a 10-second video that plays at a rate of 1 frame per second. My goal is to capture a specific frame as a snapshot. Currently, I use the following ffmpeg command for this ...
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How do I go back to a snapshot in VirtualBox?
I've made three snapshots on VirtualBox virtual machine (Windows XP).
I want to go back to Snapshot 2.
If I click on "Snapshot 2" and click Start, it goes back to the current state.
I can ...
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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 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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Can I control which file jdupes preserves when using hardlinks?
The jdupes deduplication program allows you to create hardlinks, so that the files are not deleted, but linked together so that the disk space is used only once for multiple copies.
Is there a way to ...
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Btrfs local Snapshots vs Incremental remote Backup
In a NAS context, I'm wondering about the pros of btrfs local snapshots when incremental remote backup is made on a remote server.
I'm also wondering about the interest to have both snapshots and ...
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How to delete a file in all snapshots on a btrfs system?
I've set up a sophisticated backup scheme with hourly, daily, weekly, monthly backups that take up (thanks to the glory of the btrfs cow-filesystem) almost no extra space on the device.
But ...
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Accurately taking a snapshot from a video using a command line tool
I am looking for a way to take accurate screenshots from a video. Accurate to the milliseconds. I have tried using ffmpeg using the following command:
ffmepg.exe -ss position-in-hours-minutes-...
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