i guess these are mostly, Live Snapshot backup questions.
1) is there a snapshot backups for containers? i can only see it under KVM at the moment.
2) where are snapshot backups stored? i'd like to have them on remote storage if possible.
3) how dangerous/bad-idea is it to take snapshots without RAM?
4) is it supposed to freeze the VM while its making these snapshot backups? is there a way to do it without the freeze?
5) why it shows wrong file sizes when doing a "ls" and "du" ? raw files are 18G each?
root@server1:/var/lib/vz/images/101# ls -lnha
total 7.4G
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4.0K Mar 21 10:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 4.0K Mar 21 09:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 324G Mar 21 10:04 vm-101-disk-1.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 18G Mar 21 10:04 vm-101-state-essentials.raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 18G Mar 21 09:58 vm-101-state-initial.raw
root@server1:/var/lib/vz/images/101# du -hs
7.4G .
6) why it stores these images as raw and not qcow2?
7) can i specify the live snapshot to be stored in a different storage? at the moment, it seems to only store in 'local'
would really appreciate if anyone could explain these questions, or contribute in anyway.
thanks in advance.
1) is there a snapshot backups for containers? i can only see it under KVM at the moment.
2) where are snapshot backups stored? i'd like to have them on remote storage if possible.
3) how dangerous/bad-idea is it to take snapshots without RAM?
4) is it supposed to freeze the VM while its making these snapshot backups? is there a way to do it without the freeze?
5) why it shows wrong file sizes when doing a "ls" and "du" ? raw files are 18G each?
root@server1:/var/lib/vz/images/101# ls -lnha
total 7.4G
drwxr-xr-x 2 0 0 4.0K Mar 21 10:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 0 0 4.0K Mar 21 09:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 324G Mar 21 10:04 vm-101-disk-1.qcow2
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 18G Mar 21 10:04 vm-101-state-essentials.raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 18G Mar 21 09:58 vm-101-state-initial.raw
root@server1:/var/lib/vz/images/101# du -hs
7.4G .
6) why it stores these images as raw and not qcow2?
7) can i specify the live snapshot to be stored in a different storage? at the moment, it seems to only store in 'local'
would really appreciate if anyone could explain these questions, or contribute in anyway.
thanks in advance.
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