[SOLVED] How much size are my snapshots taking up? Inconsistent outputs from zfs list

[jsalas424]

Hi, can someone please explain why the output of these two commands suggests that my snapshots are different sizes? My "VM State Storage" is set to a different disk than where my VMs are running from. For example, the snapshot for disk 201 shows up at 2.57G in one output but 5.87M in another. Which one is correct?

root@TracheServ:~# zfs list -r
NAME                                                    USED  AVAIL     REFER  MOUNTPOINT
Nextcloud.Storage                                       284G  2.36T      126G  /Nextcloud.Storage
Nextcloud.Storage/NC.VM.Backups                        24.7G  2.36T       96K  /Nextcloud.Storage/NC.VM.Backups
Nextcloud.Storage/NC.VM.Backups/vm-201-state-baseline  2.57G  2.36T      697M  -
Nextcloud.Storage/NC.VM.Backups/vm-300-state-baseline  4.63G  2.36T      814M  -
Nextcloud.Storage/NC.VM.Backups/vm-800-state-baseline  6.69G  2.36T     1.41G  -
Nextcloud.Storage/NC.VM.Backups/vm-900-state-baseline  10.8G  2.36T     3.49G  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs                                     293G   356G       96K  /new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-201-disk-0                      31.0G   377G     10.4G  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-300-disk-0                      34.8G   389G     1.78G  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-400-disk-0                      66.8G   408G     15.3G  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-400-disk-1                      21.2G   377G      604M  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-800-disk-0                      54.3G   387G     23.4G  -

root@TracheServ:~# zfs list -t snapshot
NAME                                          USED  AVAIL     REFER  MOUNTPOINT
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-201-disk-0@baseline   5.87M      -     10.4G  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-300-disk-0@baseline   6.30M      -     1.78G  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-400-disk-0@baseline   10.8M      -     15.3G  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-400-disk-1@baseline    512K      -      604M  -
new_ssd/new_ssd.VMs/vm-800-disk-0@baseline   89.4M      -     23.4G  -

 

[mira]

Did you create the snapshots with RAM? Usually vm-<VMID>-state-<name> is a pattern used for statefiles which contain the RAM.

 

[jsalas424]

Did you create the snapshots with RAM? Usually vm-<VMID>-state-<name> is a pattern used for statefiles which contain the RAM.

Yes I did include RAM. That was also my suspicion, thanks for confirming!