GitHub user daviftorres added a comment to the discussion: What does Snapshots, Backups, and Incremental Snapshots mean in CloudStack
**Volume Snapshots** (aka Instance Volume Snapshot) When attached to a running instance, the button **Take Snapshot** of the volume is not available by default. <img width="1582" height="633" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4e2df08b-618d-4866-a7bf-a9be6118587e"; /> If the global setting **Kvm snapshot enabled** (`kvm.snapshot.enabled`) is set to true... <img width="898" height="82" alt="Screenshot From 2026-01-21 15-57-30" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c0d1e2a6-26c6-421b-b3df-768199a90ad6"; /> …the **Take Snapshot** button becomes available even while the VM is running. <img width="1570" height="580" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77727790-f8ea-4ebd-93fd-a385b88f39a6"; /> I understand that taking a snapshot of a volume attached to a running VM is potentially can compromise filesystem and application-level data consistency. This issue is solved by capturing the memory with the disk into the snapshot. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/12475#discussioncomment-15564215 ---- This is an automatically sent email for [email protected]. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: [email protected]
