snapshots = full backups? not actual snapshots?

[Jae Lee]

hello,

i'm just coming from xenserver / vmware and testing out proxmox.
so far, proxmox has far exceeded my expectations but just have one glaring issue so far.

when i take live snapshots from proxmox, it just does a vzdump of a VM which can take quite a bit of time, as well as eating up precious diskspace. i'm guessing it is me who is doing something wrong because i know KVM supports live snapshots, which are point-in-time recovery, and not an actual backup of the entire image.

in xen or vmware, i can take as many snapshots as i want, usually done in less than 10 seconds and takes up only fraction of the disk space.

but proxmox, it is storing the entire disk? am i doing something wrong? i really hope so, as i'm trying to switch everything over to proxmox asap.

 

[dietmar]

but proxmox, it is storing the entire disk? am i doing something wrong? i really hope so, as i'm trying to switch everything over to proxmox asap.

vzdump is a backup tools, storing everything you need to restore. VM snapshot are something else, currently not implemented.

 

[Jae Lee]

then any idea on when we can expect a real snapshot solutions for proxmox?

 

[Jae Lee]

also i noticed that you can only have "one" backup per vm. is this something that can be configured? and are there any docs of how we can actually perform snapshot backups, even if it's through CLI?

 

[tom]

also i noticed that you can only have "one" backup per vm. is this something that can be configured?

the number of maximum backup files is a setting of the storage definition.