On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 26.04.2012 18:23, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> While there are a few howtos floating around, what is the standard >> way to snapshot guests? >> >> I went through and converted from raw to pre allocated meta data >> qcow2 images for this purpose. >> >> Some howtos suggest to do an xml snapshot file as so; >> >> <domainsnapshot> >> <name>UbuntuServer_10.10-16032011</name> >> <description>Snapshot of OS install and updates</description> >> </domainsnapshot> >> >> And then to run as so; >> >> virsh snapshot-create UbuntuServer_10.10 UbuntuServer_10.10-ss.xml >> >> Seems a bit over kill. >> >> I was thinking more along the lines of this; >> >> qemu-img snapshot -c $date $filename >> >> qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 -s $date $filename $filename-$date >> >> Or something like this.Anyways, hoping to see how you all are doing >> this for best practice sort of thing. > > Hi, > > I just use LVM snapshots; it's the fastest, most reliable way I could > come with. Hi, I don't have LVMs. But if I did, would it be possible to only snapshot a directory or will it snapshot the entire file system? - aurf