Snapshot on NFS storage

Ahmet Bas

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Aug 3, 2018
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Hello everyone,

We will start using NFS storage in our Proxmox environment. To use the snapshot feature it's required to use qcow2 format. But when we create a snapshot the snapshot is created with raw format is this expected behavior? The snapshot is created through the Proxmox GUI.

VM
Code:
agent: 1,fstrim_cloned_disks=1
boot: cdn
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 2
cpu: Haswell-noTSX,flags=+aes
cpuunits: 1000
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 4096
name: ssd.store.local
net0: virtio=62:53:c6:03:48:a7,bridge=vmbr,firewall=1,rate=125
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
parent: snapshot_snap
scsi0: data-1:4916/vm-4916-disk-0.qcow2,cache=writeback,discard=on,size=200G,ssd=1
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=c31d0a2f-7e51-4f31-8b9a-21df2aca7c11
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 9fc07c4d-48c9-4de3-8b75-f923154e6a1e

[snapshot_snap]
agent: 1,fstrim_cloned_disks=1
boot: cdn
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 2
cpu: Haswell-noTSX,flags=+aes
cpuunits: 1000
ide2: none,media=cdrom
memory: 4096
name: ssd.store.local
net0: virtio=62:53:c6:03:48:a7,bridge=vmbr,firewall=1,rate=125
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: l26
runningcpu: Haswell-noTSX,+aes,enforce,+kvm_pv_eoi,+kvm_pv_unhalt,vendor=GenuineIntel
runningmachine: pc-i440fx-5.2+pve0
scsi0: data-1:4916/vm-4916-disk-0.qcow2,cache=writeback,discard=on,size=200G,ssd=1
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=c31d0a2f-7e51-4f31-8b9a-21df2aca7c11
snaptime: 1649758935
sockets: 1
vmgenid: 9fc07c4d-48c9-4de3-8b75-f923154e6a1e
vmstate: ssdstore-data-1:4916/vm-4916-state-snapshot_snap.raw
 

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