Questions tagged [snapshot]
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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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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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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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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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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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How to make a redundant desktop system with daily snapshots? (Is btrfs ready for use?)
I want to configure a desktop system in which the home filesystem would be redundant (e.g. RAID-1), and would have weekly snapshots taken. I've already done this with ZFS, the snapshot system is ...
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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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When does a VirtualBox snapshot actually happen
I spend a lot of my job writing documentation for the installation of software on my employer's servers. Sometimes this is quite complicated, so I do the initial work inside a virtual machine running ...
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Should I be using snapshots or clones for my purposes?
I have a VirtualBox machine representing a "clean" install of my OS. I would like to use this VM for several types of machines - one for simple games, one for programming, one for my audio editing. ...
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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 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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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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Keyboard layout *image* creator
Is there a program for creating images of keyboard layouts? The program would be able to put a background image on each key but also provide its text. One could do it in Inkscape or such, but it would ...
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Virtualbox, merging snapshots and base disk
I have a virtual machine with about 30 snapshots in branches. The current development path is 22 snapshots plus the base disk. The amount of files is seemingly having an impact now on IO and the dev ...
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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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