On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > On 30.01.2013 21:14, Ahmad Emneina wrote: >> >> KVM does a snapshot of the whole disk, as opposed to delta's like >> xenserver. Which is why your kvm snapshots take ages to copy to secondary >> storage. > > > Is then safe to assume that a Cloudstack KVM snapshot can be used as a "full > backup" that can be restored even though there is nothing left of the > original virtual machine? Doesn't sound so bad from a reliability point of > view; an incremental/delta snapshot would not be of much case in a disaster > scenario. >
As long as you realize that these are 'crash consistent' snapshots, then yes. I personally dislike using the term 'backup' for snapshots - it's certainly not a method I'd use to backup data that was important to me. --David
