snapshots and rollback?

[joeblow]

Hi,

Is there (kvm) snapshot and rollback functionality in proxmox? Or is that left to being done in the vm's monitor session?

How about openvz? I'm just dipping a toe in with openvz, so don't know if it has snapshot/rollback capability (perhaps by different jargon?)

thx,

 

[dietmar]

Or is that left to being done in the vm's monitor session?

yes

How about openvz? I'm just dipping a toe in with openvz, so don't know if it has snapshot/rollback capability (perhaps by different jargon?)

There is no such functionality in Openvz.

 

[zc1974]

Can someone clarify? Can we actually have snapshots using KVM within Proxmox web interface?

 

[joeblow]

Thanks Dietmar

zc1974: there's lots of ways to do the rollback/checkpoint/snapshot/more-jargon. Lots of flexibility. To the point of confusion.

I think the way that works through the virtual machine monitor is the savevm/loadvm/delvm/"info snapshots". I think that's part and parcel of the qemu system.

But, as I said, I'm new to this, so the above may not be the best way. Or even a good idea. Or may be totally bogus. Hopefully someone knowledgable will point to some relevant webpages.

 

[dietmar]

I think the way that works through the virtual machine monitor is the savevm/loadvm/delvm/"info snapshots". I think that's part and parcel of the qemu system.

But AFAIK that only works if you use at least one qcow2 image.