Questions tagged [snapshot]
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Quickest way to merge all snapshots in VirtualBox?
I have vdi with quite a number of snapshots taken from it - say, 50 or 70 snapshots.
I want to have one plain vdi with a current state. These snapshots take way too much disk space and are not needed ...
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Taking snapshot of entire OS
I was wondering if anyone knew of free software to take an OS snapshot.
Something that would also compare and list the differences between the two different snapshots.
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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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Creating a Snapshot of a Windows 7 System [duplicate]
Is there a way to create a snapshot of a Windows 7 system?
My goal is to be able to save the current state of my Windows 7 OS, on external storage, and be able to restore it on the same hardware in ...
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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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How do I change the snapshots directory in VirtualBox on Windows?
I have a SSD Hard drive representing C:\, which is only 30GB.
Therefore, I install all my (non-critical) apps on my large G:\ drive. My VirtualBox installation is on G:\, as well as the hard disks....
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Sharing VirtualBox snapshots
Is it possible to "share" a VirtualBox snapshot? I have a "baseline" VirtualBox machine, and I would like to be able to take a snapshot, and send it to another user which has the same baseline machine....
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Is there a way to snapshot a running process to disk to restore it later?
I usually work with a lot of instances of visual studio open to different projects, I was wondering if there is a way to snapshot/hibernate a running process to disk instead of closing it so that I ...
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virtualbox snapshot size
I've started using Windows 7 under VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 10.10 host. I took about 6 snapshots over the course of setting up the VM from the Windows restore image that came with the computer. My ...
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How best to compare huge directory trees
How can I compare directory trees of huge size?
I am thinking a free tool to make a snapshot of the filesystem structure (listing of files and directories, their size & timestamps) would be ideal ...
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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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VirtualBox - can I clone a snapshot?
I have a VirtualBox VM machine and I took a few snapshots.
VirtualBox works on a Window7 x64 and plays a Window7 x64 system as well.
Now I would like to clone the very first snapshot but I would ...
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Taking snapshots of filesystem/volume in Windows 7?
I'm developing an Windows 7 image for deploying onto a bunch of computers.
As I install the software, I like to take a snapshot from time to time in case one piece of software makes a mess of things.
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How to delete all snaphosts in Virtualbox?
I have till now everytime saved and loaded machine from snapshot, but my SSD disk now is full and I can't do anything. Snapshots folder are using 70 GB and what I want to do now is delete all ...
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