Questions tagged [snapshot]
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Understanding how libvirt snapshots are stored
At first I thought it would be stored in /var/lib/libvirt/images/ but as I created snapshots for the centos7 domain, nothing changed in this directory:
drwx--x--x 2 root root 4096 Feb ...
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When rolling back a subvolume to a snapshot in btrfs, is simply renaming and keeping the old subvolume bad practice?
I'm new to btrfs. I'm experimenting with snapshots and rollbacks. I read the answers here:
Conceptualizing btrfs - understanding snapshots, and space used
btrfs confused about subvolumes
Online ...
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Inheriting the snapshots from a qcow2 backing file
I created an internal snapshot in a qcow2 image via virsh. Then, I created a new qcow2 image having the first image as backing file. I checked and the internal snapshot of the backing file is not ...
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Use Timeshift or similar for synching/backing up arbitrary locations?
I have been using a dual boot machine for a couple of years. I've got to the point where I spend 95% of my time logged into Linux rather than the proprietary OS (W10) and so I need to choose a Linux-...
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Can I perform incremental backups with Syncthing?
I have found a page which describes how to go about doing incremental backups using rysnc. To me incremental backups are good not only because they save space and time but also because you can ...
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Can be the snapshots made by Snapper used in LiveCD?
Restoring root system by snapper in openSUSE KDE just made my OS crashed so maybe it can be used in LiveCD. Snapper will create some snapshots in the .snapshot folder, they can be used in command-line ...
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How run Softwares as a snapshot?
I want to run the software as non-persistent, which means if any configuration is changed, they revert.
In the Windows, Software Sandboxie has this amazing feature. When the program is started, it ...
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How to do linux snapshots similar to VirtualBox guest snapshot?
I'm still learning how linux works so I'm constantly making mistakes, installing packages in the wrong way and whatnot. A good way of solving this is using VirtualBox and just taking snapshots from ...
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LVM snapshot: Failed to wipe snapshot exception store, udev doesn't create the partition before lvm tries to wipe it
I am trying to create a snapshot of a logical volume (partition) but I cannot make it work. After days of researching, I found that this post might shed some light on the situation. We are using the ...
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Snapshottable encrypted folder
I'm trying to create an encrypted data folder which could periodically take snapshots of the current state of it. The snapshot should be an encrypted one, and I should be able to take snapshots ...
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ZFS send of 1.6GB volume results in a HUGE file - fragmentation to blame?
I have a strange issue I haven't seen before. I have a ZFS volume which reports it's about 1.7Gb in size, and so does a snapshot. If I then try to do a zfs send for backup purposes, I get a HUGE file -...
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How can *efficiently* be determined whether a ZFS dataset has been changed since the last snapshot as a simple yes/no-question?
Say I have a pool named tank and a dataset inside of it named data. There is also at least one snapshot of data named last_snapshot:
tank
tank/data
tank/data@last_snapshot
The "slow" way of figuring ...
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Can I restore my Linux Mint installation from external Timeshift snapshot after switching SSD?
I am using Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa" on my laptop which has 120GB SSD. I want to change to a SSD with more storage.
I know that with the Timeshift backup utility you can make a snapshot of the system ...
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Change where Snapper creates snapshots
I have a BTRFS filesystem, running Arch Linux x86_64. On that filesystem, I have the top level subvolume (id=5), then inside that I have @root, @home, @snapshots, @swapfile. I want to be able to ...
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Backup configuration for Ubuntu Server
How can I make a restore point for a Ubuntu Server 18.04?
I have a clean install of the Ubuntu Server OS and before installing any Web Server I want to perform a backup and if something goes wrong ...
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ZFS incremental snapshot send/recv without first snapshot
I have the following ZFS dataset:
pool/dataset
pool/dataset@snap1
pool/dataset@snap2
pool/dataset@snap3
Which has been replicated to a backup pool, using ZFS send/recv
backupPool/dataset
backupPool/...
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How to copy multiple snapshots at once without duplicating data?
I have a live btrfs filesystem of 3.7TiB that's >90% full including old snapshots and a fresh 4TB backup harddisk. How to copy all existing snapshots to the backup harddisk?
I tried
# btrfs send ...
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Encrypting data written to an LVM snapshot with a different key
I have the following requirements:
I have an LVM volume A, encrypted with key K1 using LUKS.
I need to make a copy-on-write snapshot of A such that
Writes to A will continue to be encrypted under K1
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How to sync after a 'snapper delete'
I have started a snapper delete command, only to find out five minutes later that it is running in the background and seems to take a longer time. Is there a command can I use to get notified when the ...
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How to find the creation date/time of btrfs snapshots
Is there a general way to find the creation date of btrfs snapshots, or is it necessary to encode the date in the snapshot name, as it is e.g. done by Timeshift?
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How large should an LVM snapshot be?
Preface to my Situation and Motivation
I am trying to familiarize myself with Ubuntu Server edition as I set up a home server. I am setting up a small virtual network with a hypervisor for ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu without btrfs snapshot
On every do-release-upgrade Ubuntu does a btrfs snapshot. What sounds like a good idea is quite annoying if you don't have enough disk space. The update requires the same amount of space as currently ...
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Restore single files from a btrfs snapshot without doing a full copy
Background
I maintain a series of hourly snapshots on my btrfs filesystem using btrbk. The subvolume and snapshots are stored like this (names shortened to make it easier to follow):
/@vol ...
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Difference in openjdk-6, openjdk-7, and openjdk-8 in terms of SLOC count?
I'm calculating SLOC (Source Lines of Code) count of some of the packages for my research purposes. I'm downloading source of packages for different years from Debian snapshots. For most of the ...
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Zfs send snapshot to different server with different layout
So i am eother missing this use case, or its never come up, or it works fine and i havent treid it yet.
But i have two servers, and i want one to be the backup server of main server.
I moved disks ...
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Source of Debian packages older than 2005
I want to download packages for years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 but Debian snapshots are maintained from March 2005 only. How can I get the source of packages before 2005?
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How to keep my system clean?
When I work on a project I often need to install a bunch of packages and libraries/tools.
Often these packages create logs files and other kind of useless files that I will not need when the project ...
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How do I avoid booting into BusyBox when reverting from LVM snapshot?
I'm developing on-premise migration flow based on Ubuntu 14.04. The steps are:
taking snapshot of / using LVM (/sbin/lvcreate -s -n ...)
executing migration scripts
on success
committing the ...
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CentOS fs (or folder) snapshot without LVM
I do not have an LVM volume in my CentOS7 setup, since RAID1 on XFS with LVM on top = possibly sub-optimal performance (as stated here, have a look at Andres719's comment)
However, I want to take a ...
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How to configure AppArmor so that KVM can start guest that has a backing file chain
I'm playing around with using Qemu external snapshots for KVM (because they are so fast!) on Ubuntu 16.04 and have the following setup:
All files for the VM are within a single directory (named after ...
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Doesn't the existence of LVM snapshots slows down writing a file system wich doesn't support them natively?
As far as understand snapshots in LVM (please, do correct me if I'm wrong): since they are not persistent and work even with a file system which doesn't itself support snapshots => I suppose it must ...
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Will writing identical data to blocks of a file under ZFS use space in snapshots?
I have a 16M file.
I take a snapshot of the ZFS filesystem which contains it.
If I overwrite the file with the same data, will ZFS need to store two copies of all of the blocks of the file?
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Snapper has recently started performing duplicate snapshots each hour
For the last two years Snapper has been working flawlessly to perform hourly snapshots (on the hour). A few days ago I noticed two snapshots are being taken every hour. One on the hour (HH:00), and ...
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Are BtrFS snapshots killing my SSD?
As I know, BtrFS snapshots don't actually copy data. I suppose, actual copying executes on every change of snapshoted data.
So is it right that BtrFS partition on SSD with enabled Snapshots doubles ...
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Is it better to wait for Snapper to finish before rebooting?
I run various openSUSE systems with btrfs file systems. On these setups, openSUSE uses Snapper to manage filesystem snapshots. Every time I finish updating the system using Zypper or the YaST ...
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Change btrfs default subvolume in order to delete snapshot
I have used snapper with Fedora 26 to create snapshots of my btrfs system, and I am trying to start fresh (i.e. remove snapper and anything it has done) but I have one snapshot I cannot remove as it ...
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Test-boot hard drive in QEMU, without writing to it
I remember reading a cool command to use QEMU, to test-boot a hard drive, but without writing anything back to it. (Even if the system is EFI-booted, I think it should be able to work for Linux if ...
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Can't create persistent snapshot device with `dmsetup`
I am trying to create a dmsetup snapshot device be able to rollback changes made by fsck.
I think I'm calling dmsetup incorrectly. Here's an example:
$ truncate -s 4096 real snapshot
$...
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Can a user-defined “destroy-after” property be set on a ZFS snapshot?
I know that (almost) arbitrary user-created properties can be added to a ZFS dataset on FreeBSD. But if I take snapshots of a dataset (or pool), can I set a user-defined property on an individual ...
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LVM snapshots vs. filesystem
I have a Linux system (Opensuse leap, but it's not that important) installed on a logical volume (and the ext4 filesystem). I want to upgrade it to a newer version, but to be on the safe side, I want ...
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Unable to zfs send | zfs receive datasets in same zpool
I have two environments Staging (staging) and Development (choang). I am unable to replicate (including snapshots) from dataset zfs/staging.assets to another dataset zfs/choang.assets within the same ...
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Merge changes to upper filesystem to lower filesystem in Linux Overlay (OverlayFS) mount
I would like to be able to merge changes from the upper filesystem of an overlay mount to a lower filesystem.
I am interested both online (i.e. merge while the overlay is mounted) and offline (...
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How to change snap user directory?
I use Fedora.
I wonder how I can configure snap to store all snapshots not in ~/snap/... but rather in ~/X/snap/...
Sorry, I have already tried looking at various documentation of snapd but could ...
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Hide btrfs .snapshots when mounting from other Linux
I am mounting an old btrfs volume in a newer Linux. The mount point is /mnt/linux2. However, btrfs's internal snapshots are shown as directories on the mounted disk, e.g.
/mnt/linux2/.snapshots/189/...
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Btrfs automatically bitrot correction with snapshots?
I want to set up a notebook (debian) with 1 SSD and 1 HDD each with Luks and Btrfs on it. Because the SSD and the HDD doesn't have the same speed, i don't want to use Btrfs' Raid-1 on it, but i also ...
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Never ending “Run configure hook of core snap if present”
I am using Debian 9 with KDE Plasma for work and fun, I just wanted to install Krita graphics app. It became an opportunity to tryout new instalation system called "snap". So I installed snapd and ...
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Can we make snapshot to the physical machine? [closed]
All we know we can snapshot(store the current system and disk information) the VM in the VMware workstation easily.
But I don't know if we can snapshot to the physical machine (CentOS 7.2).
Or use ...
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How might I create a completely discardable build environment?
Suppose I have a fresh install of a common Linux distribution. I download a tarball containing the source code of a web application I'd like to build and host. The project is somewhat modern, so it ...
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Revert to snapshot at boot
Can I take a snapshot of a physical machine and revert to that stage every time the machine boots?
This can be done with virtual machines, but I want to do it for a physical machine.
Background
I ...
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Exclude attached storage from snapshot
I'm trying to setup nightly snapshots of our VMs that exclude our attached storage. I've been looking into lvcreate but can't figure out how to make it pass over certain directories. Is this possible ...
