GitHub user ingox added a comment to the discussion: What does Snapshots, Backups, and Incremental Snapshots mean in CloudStack
@daviftorres there are pro and con for the different snapshot and backup options. Find them here: **Instance snapshot:** - is stored on the primary storage - is no backup; just to freeze a certain state if you do changes - is using qcow2 functionality - does snapshot of the entire VM including all disks - can include memory as well - can have differential snapshots **Volume snapshot:** - is copied to the secondary storage - is individual to each volume - can be differential - you won't get a consistent snapshot across all volumes of a VM for the same point in time - can be copied to other zones automatically - can be restored in other zones without the need of template now **NAS backup:** - does backup the entire VM to an external location - can be restored to other zones with access to this backup storage - does full backup only at the moment - differential backup is hopefully to come soon I hopefully have covered most of the important criteria to be considered. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/12475#discussioncomment-15568853 ---- This is an automatically sent email for [email protected]. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: [email protected]
