Hi Ofri, Thank you very much, you understood correctly, I was looking for a method of making an entire image basically, but misunderstood what a snapshot was, so thanks for clearing that up.
Much appreciated. Regards. Neil Wilson. On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Ofri Masad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Neil, > > If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a way to save the full > state of the VM+Disks like an image. > Snapshots are actually just delta from the former state. that is the reason > they do not consume as much space as a full image. > > What you can do is use the export feature for VMs. just export the VM. by > doing so you are saving both the VM state and the Disks state. > Of course, this would require more space than used in a snapshot. > > Ofri > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Neil" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:00:53 PM >> Subject: [Users] Exporting backing up Snapshots >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm working on automating snapshots(not live, just paused) from my >> oVirt setup at the moment, but I can't seem to find out how to export >> the snapshots for backing up purposes so they can be moved to another >> storage domain etc. >> >> Please could someone point me in the right direction >> >> Thank you! >> >> Regards. >> >> Neil Wilson. >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
