A snapshot is a copy of data taken at a specific point in time.
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Is this how LVM snapshots work?
I'm trying to figure out how LVM snapshots work so I can implement it on my fileserver but I'm having difficulty finding anything on google that explains how it works instead of how to use it for a ...
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Snapshot/rollback for libvirt+KVM?
I've recently begun using KVM for my development/test environment on a Linux host system with 8G memory. Prior, I was using VMware Fusion for my virtual environment, but my Macbook only has 2G memory. ...
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Hidden Periodic Screenshots on a corporate workstation?
Can anyone recommend something that allows us to take hidden periodic screenshots of a workstation?
We have a user who we believe is abusing his computer privileges. We have our suspicions that he ...
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LVM snapshots vs. file system snapshots
As far as I know, LVM makes it possible to take snapshots of a volume. There are also a number of file systems (ZFS, Btrfs, reiserfs, ...) which supports snapshots.
However, I've never understood the ...
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Why are snapshots considered as temporary backups not real backups?
I am using VMware ESXi. In our team we use to provide snapshots for long term backup.
Then we faced issues like memory spillover and the server got hang up.
I started reading in VMware knowledgebase ...
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Linux LVM snapshot commit or revert?
I'm about to perform an experimental upgrade on my CentOS 5 server. If the upgrade fails, I want to be able to back out the changes to the filesystem. This scenario seems similar to the example in ...
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Vmware missing last snapshot data file what now?
Hi we had some problems with our server filling up because of snapshots then failing to turn on,
I have managed to copy everything across and repair the snapshot descriptor files (hopefully).
The ...
