On 26.04.2012 19:12, aurfalien wrote: > On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Nux! wrote: > >> 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. > > Hi, > > I don't have LVMs. > > But if I did, would it be possible to only snapshot a directory or > will it snapshot the entire file system? Assuming you use LVM on the host to provide the virtual machine with a (virtual) HDD, then snapshotting that will obviously be (virtual) disk-wise. -- 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
