For some reason my storageVM was in a state where things "worked" but automated snapshots were not working.
Basically the step where libvirt created a stapshot on the primary storage worked - but the step to have the snapshot parent copied to the secondary storage was not working. I got automated snapshots working again by rebooting the storage systemVM. However, when i look at libvirt I can see there are many snapshots on the primary storage. A 12G filesystem has a qcow2 size of 220GB. virsh snapshot-list --parent i-3-14-VM Name Creation Time State Parent ------------------------------------------------------------ 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130125025313 2013-01-25 02:53:13 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130126025313 2013-01-26 02:53:13 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130125025313 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130127025313 2013-01-27 02:53:13 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130126025313 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130128025313 2013-01-28 02:53:13 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130127025313 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130129025313 2013-01-29 02:53:13 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130128025313 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130130025313 2013-01-30 02:53:13 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130129025313 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130131025313 2013-01-31 02:53:13 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130130025313 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130201025313 2013-02-01 02:53:13 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130131025313 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130201223643 2013-02-01 22:36:43 +0000 running 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130201025313 The actual qcow2 file looks like a much bigger wreck: qemu-img info /gluster/qcow2/images/7ec192c1-ecee-4f5e-8e3d-567f7878ceb1 image: /gluster/qcow2/images/7ec192c1-ecee-4f5e-8e3d-567f7878ceb1 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 100G (107374182400 bytes) disk size: 211G cluster_size: 65536 backing file: /gluster/qcow2/images/cb151441-209c-4f43-a2a4-b390c9bb9768 (actual path: /gluster/qcow2/images/cb151441-209c-4f43-a2a4-b390c9bb9768) Snapshot list: ID TAG VM SIZE DATE VM CLOCK 1 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20121230025415 1.0G 2012-12-30 02:54:16 785:39:01.680 2 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20121231025415 1.0G 2012-12-31 02:54:16 809:35:35.417 3 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130101025415 1.0G 2013-01-01 02:54:16 833:24:20.046 4 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130102025415 1.0G 2013-01-02 02:54:15 857:13:02.766 5 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130103025415 1.0G 2013-01-03 02:54:15 881:01:42.467 6 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130104025415 1.0G 2013-01-04 02:54:15 904:50:29.840 7 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130105025415 1.0G 2013-01-05 02:54:16 928:39:17.670 8 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130106025415 1.0G 2013-01-06 02:54:16 952:28:07.139 9 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130107025415 1.1G 2013-01-07 02:54:16 976:16:58.396 10 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130108025415 1.1G 2013-01-08 02:54:15 1000:05:45.624 11 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130109025415 1.1G 2013-01-09 02:54:15 1023:54:25.482 12 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130110025415 1.1G 2013-01-10 02:54:16 1047:43:17.503 13 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130111025415 1.1G 2013-01-11 02:54:16 1071:32:03.747 14 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130112025415 1.1G 2013-01-12 02:54:16 1095:20:52.220 15 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130113025415 1.1G 2013-01-13 02:54:16 1119:09:43.387 16 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130114025415 1.1G 2013-01-14 02:54:16 1142:58:32.657 17 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130115025415 1.1G 2013-01-15 02:54:16 1166:47:20.084 18 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130116025416 1.1G 2013-01-16 02:54:16 1190:36:06.729 19 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130117025416 1.1G 2013-01-17 02:54:16 1214:24:53.904 20 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130118025415 1.1G 2013-01-18 02:54:16 1238:13:35.640 21 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130119025415 1.1G 2013-01-19 02:54:16 1262:02:17.839 22 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130120025415 1.1G 2013-01-20 02:54:16 1285:51:01.114 23 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130121025415 1.1G 2013-01-21 02:54:16 1309:39:49.956 24 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130122025416 1.1G 2013-01-22 02:54:16 1333:28:39.703 25 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130123025415 1.1G 2013-01-23 02:54:16 1357:17:25.426 26 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130124025416 1.1G 2013-01-24 02:54:16 1381:06:04.731 27 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130125025313 517M 2013-01-25 02:53:13 04:46:52.307 28 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130126025313 678M 2013-01-26 02:53:13 28:44:35.134 29 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130127025313 918M 2013-01-27 02:53:13 52:42:00.249 30 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130128025313 1.1G 2013-01-28 02:53:13 76:38:55.428 31 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130129025313 1.2G 2013-01-29 02:53:13 100:35:27.978 32 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130130025313 1.2G 2013-01-30 02:53:13 124:31:55.179 33 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130131025313 1.3G 2013-01-31 02:53:13 148:28:17.744 34 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130201025313 1.3G 2013-02-01 02:53:13 172:24:33.630 35 24661080-ae91-468d-b8f0-030b5b36f786_ROOT-14_20130201223643 1.3G 2013-02-01 22:36:43 192:04:17.498 Suggestions on how I can clean up these extra snapshots? -Bryan
