A snapshot is a copy of data taken at a specific point in time.
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EBS Snapshot backs up Instance - Is S3 also needed?
I have spent lots of hours reading about EBS & S3 backups. I believe this is the proper approach for our needs but I am not a SysAdmin.
Setup:
1 EC2 Server w/ apache & database
Over 250000 ...
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Switching Applications server on different VM snapshot
I have a VMware VM running with a specific Application Server.
Instead of creating a new VM for install a new application server, Is it a good practice creating a snapshot of old Application Server ...
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Backup server data how I can do? [closed]
everyone,I have one thing can understand,anyone can help?
Of cause hope your help.Thx first.The problem is the below:
I have three server,A,B,C.
A is the control and monitor B and C servers,B is the ...
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Does speed of ZFS snapshot rollback depend on number of files?
I have tested a 10Gbit connection between two hosts to be able to read a 10GB file from host1 and write it to host2 using netcat, where the speed was 410MB/s.
When I ZFS send/receive again with ...
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What does zfs receive -F do?
When I read man zfs for zfs receive I see
-F Force a rollback of the file system to the most recent snap-
shot before performing the receive operation. If receiving an
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How to assign the correct drive letter during windows boots with snapshot [migrated]
I´am using Drive Snapshot http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/restboot.htm to restore a windows image during windows reboot.
I got the C:\ Partition and a CD-ROM drive.
I copied the image on a external ...
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Hyper-V Missing Virtual Server From Hyper-V Manager List
We are running Hyper-V on a Window 2008 server that doesn't have a desktop (only console login is provided).
We access Hyper-V using Hyper-V Manager which connects to this host-server and it provides ...
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Is it possible to quiesce a snapshot of a running server on an Esxi and back it up to a remote network several times a day?
There's an outside consulting company claiming that they are taking a snapshot of our local servers which reside on a VMWare Esxi, 4 times a daily while our servers are running. This snapshot is then ...
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Multi-Generation Snapshots using Device Mapper (Linux)
LVM is an amazingly useful tool, however, it seems to still lack support for snapshotting a drive that is already a snapshot. I made a script to handle this automatically but ran into some troubles.
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Quickest way to merge 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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vmware 5.1 Upgrading and Snapshots
I'm planning on upgrading my environment to vmware 5.1 soon and was wondering if anyone here might know anything regarding snapshots taken prior to the upgrade:
Will I need to take a snap shot after ...
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Snapshot a KVM guest with non-file storage
I am preparing at least one Windows 7 guest on a KVM Linux (ubuntu) host. I have made an LVM-based storage pool which I would like to use. My main concern is snapshots. The disk-image will be ...
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lvconvert --merge how to undo?
I have created a script for users who work on KVM virtual machines to be able to perform lvm snapshots on the logical volumes where their VMs are installed. Snapshot restores are performed via ...
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LVM Snapshot confusion
I think I understand some of the lvm snapshot concept, but am confused about one last thing. After you take the snapshot, if you don't mount it, will it be active? What I really want to know is will ...
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What does an LVM2 Snapshot contain? [duplicate]
Everything I read makes me think an lvm snapshot is a direct copy of the logical volume that was snapshot(ed), but how can that be when it takes 10 seconds to snapshot a 90 gig logical volume? If I ...
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KVM: LVM snapshots on qcow2 images
I have an LVM2 logical volume that is formatted with ext4 and mounted to a directory on /opt. On that volume is a qcow2 KVM image for a Windows 7 guest. Can I snapshot the LVM logical volume for a ...
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How to determine optimal size for LVM snapshot?
I'd like to create a backup script that uses LVM snapshots during backup. This script will run on several Linux machines.
I'd like to avoid creating snapshot that is too small and gets full during ...
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Is it possible to copy a snapshot and associate it to another VM (which has same configuration)?
I am having two virtual machines with same OS and software list. (In fact they were cloned).
Now I have installed an application in a VM and taken a snapshot.
Is it possible to copy this snapshot ...
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What are the tradeoffs between using hypervisor- vs. storage-array-based snapshots as backup sources?
Suppose you have some virtual machines (running in eg. ESXi) that are stored on an iSCSI storage array (eg. EqualLogic PS4110). Now suppose you want to set up a backup and restore regime that looks ...
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How do I sync disks in a Windows guest before doing a snapshot?
In general, before doing a disk snapshot of a virtual machine instance, the disk has to be synced to ensure that all buffers have been written to disk.
If the guest operating system is Linux, you can ...
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Windows WMI get a snapshot EnabledState
I am trying to get the EnabledState of a virtual machine snapshot using WMI. That is I try to get the EnabledState that was current for the virtual machine when the snapshot was taken.
So far I know ...
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LVM+MongoDB. Dropping in speed of backup creation
Till recent time we have been making mongo backups archiving LVM snapshot on hidden SECONDARY server with RAID10 on SAS disks.
Currently operation on making snapshot from volume with 500 Gb of data ...
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export XenServer snapshot as file via console
I have created a snapshot of a Citrix XenServer virtual machine using XenCenter, and now I would like to save this snapshot as an *.xva file, just as if I right-click on the snapshot icon in XenCenter ...
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How to hot backup/snapshot an ext4 partition (in the absence of LVM)?
I'm currently tasked with bringing up a existing server to (at least more) professional standards - with as little disruption as possible to end-users. To have a proper rollback, I need to backup the ...
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I can't mount a LVM snapshot on a XEN host
I'd like to backup my XEN VMs by copying-rsyncing a LVM snapshot.
I'm trying to mount a snapshot that contains a XEN guest's virtual disk (ext4).
Below are all the steps I follow. I can't mount the ...
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Snapshot copy a VM to USB attached to ESXi 5.1 host
I was trying to script a snapshot backup of running VMs to a USB drive attached to the host. We are using the free hypervisor version of ESXi and do not want to purchase 3rd party products to do this.
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MongoDB Disaster Prep on AWS
I'm looking for best practice advice covering MongoDB disaster recovery within an AWS hosted environment.
Our setup is fairly standard at this point, replica set of 3 servers (1 primary, 1 secondary, ...
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Hyper-V snapshots exist after Shut Down
I'm running a virtual machine (hyper-v) on an Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit machine.
I want to increase the hard drive size but the edit button is not enabled. The notice says "...snapshots exists ...
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Cloning instance - Original kernel not available when creating AMI
I have a EC2 Ubuntu server on Amazon cloud and I'm trying to clone an instance "X" by creating a snapshot of the instance and creating an AMI from that snapshot.
The problem is: When creating the AMI, ...
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Checking for orphaned snapshots - ESXi5
So we had some issues with our passive mail node over the weekend doing vmtools updates and to resolve a problem we had to revert to a snapshot and then reseed all the databases across. All in all ...
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How to create a new instance from a snapshot of Amazon EC2? [closed]
How to restore an instance or create a new instance from a snapshot in Amazon EC2 Micro instance?
I tried many guides but nothing worked. I already tried it 25 times but failed all the time,
25 ...
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Samba 3.5 Shadow Copy for Windows 7
Over the past several days I have been trying to get the shadow to work with samba but haven’t been successful. Can someone check below config and let me know if I am missing something? We are using ...
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vSphere Replication Guest OS Quiescing
I am using vSphere Replication 5.1 to send virtual machines to a separate datastore every 24 hours. One option in configuring each VMs replication is the Guest OS Quiescing option. Options are None ...
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XenServer and Quiesced snapshots
At work we use XenServer to administrate all the VM's. Now I wrote a script which enables Linux machines quiesced support. The script works absolutely fine. It activates if someone triggers a quiesced ...
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Correct process for starting new EC2 Instance from an EBS snapshot
I have an EC2 instance running the Ubuntu 12.04 32bit AMI (available in the first page the Classic wizard for launching a new instance). The root device is an EBS volume. I then follow these steps:
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Amazon EC2 EBS image reset to default after restart
Here is the flow: i created an instance from a community AMI (including Nginx with wordpress).
Then i modified a lot of the changes and i want to create a new AMI that will have all those changes (in ...
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Creating a snapshot of an attached EBS volume is not working
I'm trying to create a snapshot of an 8GB volume attached to another instance whose device is named sdh5. I originally created this volume myself and mounted it as an ext4 filesystem. Now I'm trying ...
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backup of KVM VM's running on Ubuntu 12.4.1 precise edition from a remote machine
I am creating a library API which will take the backup of all the VM's running on KVM hypervisor. My VM's can be of any type. I am taking this backup from a remote machine and need to put the backup ...
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How do I delete ESXi vm snapshots using the least additional space possible?
We have a tree of about 15 snapshots of a virtual machine that runs Win2k8, as you may guessed our datastore is soon to run out of space. My objective is to delete all the snapshots, as it seems it ...
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Revert a VM client from within the VM Client - is it possible?
I am creating a test VM (esxi V5) client for our QA department.
Once it's installed, my options will be:
Use a snapshot
Use non persistent disk on the hard disk.
For either options, I can give ...
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backing up MySQL living on a SAN using LVM snapshots. is this doable?
So I was looking into LVM snapshots and it seems like a feasible method for backing up mysql so that it's at least crash consistent.
My issue is that I have mysql servers where the mysql data ...
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Export snapshot from VMWare Workstation 8
How to export virtual machine from VMWare Workstation 8 to another physical computer with installed VMWare Workstation 8? i.e. how to move snapshots between different instances of VMWare Workstation ...
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Robocopy, do not overwrite existing files, but copy the changed / new ones
Is it possible to mirror the two directories without overwritting the files in destination directory with new/changed/deleted files. Something like snapshots.
Example:
Copy the source directory with ...
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Why VM snapshots are affecting performance?
I read in one of the VMware KB article says that snapshots will directly proportional to VM performance.
But my team keep asking me how snapshots can affect performance.
I would like to give them ...
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VMWare software that support snapshots [closed]
I need to run some VMs But it seems like VMWare Player doesn't support snapshots.
Is there any other free software from VMWare that support snapshoting?
PS: I know that Oracle VirtualBox can do that ...
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lvm snapshot differences
All machines are centos 6, 64bit
My rpm-build machine ends up with a directory it runs createrepo against.
This is then NFS mounted (read-only) to an rpm repository hosting machine in a ...
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Downloaded -flat.vmdk from snapshoted machine is different everytime
I have a virtual machine running on VMware ESXi 4.1.0, machine has one Thick provisioned disk stored in VM forder (residing on local datastore).
I am planning to move the virtual machine to another ...
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What hints are available to determine if a VPS was reverted to a snapshot
I have a hosted VPS and recently had a problem with it, that they fixed.
I'm waiting for them to get back to me on what the problem is.
Til then, what hints can a Windows 2008 Server OS give as to ...
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vmware esxi 5, cant create snapshots and consolidate fails, how to delete old or consolidate redo logs?
I have a VM that seems to be working ok, but when VMWare DR (or I) tries to create a snap shot, it fails, and when I view the summary page of the VM it has a warning at the top showing that the disks ...
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Move snapshots between machines
I have two VMs one(VM2) was created from a template of the other(VM1). I added VM1 to SCVMM library without cloning it first, now I can't access it, deploy it, or create VMs using it.
To create VM2 I ...
