I'm not quite following all of your statements. Specifically, I don't
see why you think you need a base AND a first snapshot. One snapshot is
sufficient for later restoring. Also, I don't think you need to
understand the underlying architecture in order to successfully use
snapshots (it might
I believe a single file does exist for the snapshot but it isn't what
you think. I believe, if ploop snapshotting is what I believe it to be,
that file is only used to log the changes to the filesystem while
preserving the root.hdd file (your original filesystem). Once a
snapshot is created,
On Don, 2014-10-16 at 16:38 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote:
Greetings,
- Original Message -
I think I'm having some brainfart moment on how snapshots really
function.
Ok, I played with it... and I *THINK* I understand it now.
Your first snapshot is like a base... and you have to
Hi Scott
Without having fully read your second mail I think you want something
like this:
* You have CT with Zimbra 8.0.6 installed and you want to upgrade t
8.0.8
* You create a snapshot like this:
$ vzctl snapshot CTID --name pre-upgrade-808
* You perform the upgrade and it goes havoc and
On Don, 2014-10-16 at 16:38 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote:
Greetings,
- Original Message -
I think I'm having some brainfart moment on how snapshots really
function.
Ok, I played with it... and I *THINK* I understand it now.
Your first snapshot is like a base... and you have to
Martin,
- Original Message -
I'm not quite following all of your statements. Specifically, I don't
see why you think you need a base AND a first snapshot. One snapshot is
sufficient for later restoring. Also, I don't think you need to
understand the underlying architecture in order to
Hey Scott
Sorry, I accidentally used the address of my son as sender, but it was
still me writing the mail.
On Sam, 2014-10-18 at 13:53 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote:
Martin,
- Original Message -
I'm not quite following all of your statements. Specifically, I don't
see why you think
Greetings,
I haven't used filesystem snapshot'ing before and really like ploop and the
fact that it has snapshot features. I do have some basic questions because of
this inexperience. Hopefully people can help educate me on this topic.
So, I have a container that doesn't currently have a
Greetings,
- Original Message -
I think I'm having some brainfart moment on how snapshots really
function.
Ok, I played with it... and I *THINK* I understand it now.
Your first snapshot is like a base... and you have to have additional snapshots
above your base... or you can't
