On 26.04.2012 18:23, aurfalien wrote: > Hi, > > While there are a few howtos floating around, what is the standard > way to snapshot guests? > > I went through and converted from raw to pre allocated meta data > qcow2 images for this purpose. > > Some howtos suggest to do an xml snapshot file as so; > > <domainsnapshot> > <name>UbuntuServer_10.10-16032011</name> > <description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description> > </domainsnapshot> > > And then to run as so; > > virsh snapshot-create UbuntuServer_10.10 UbuntuServer_10.10-ss.xml > > Seems a bit over kill. > > I was thinking more along the lines of this; > > qemu-img snapshot -c $date $filename > > qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -s $date $filename $filename-$date > > Or something like this.Anyways, hoping to see how you all are doing > this for best practice sort of thing. Hi, I just use LVM snapshots; it's the fastest, most reliable way I could come with. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
