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A snapshot is a copy of data taken at a specific point in time.

A snapshot is a copy of data taken at a specific point in time.

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Can one detect, via the AWS RDS API, any I/O suspension when creating a snapshot for a single-AZ DB instance?

This is very similar to this existing question: amazon web services - RDS snapshot: how long does I/O suspension occur? - Server Fault Unfortunately, the only answer provides more of a background about why a suspension is required/inevitable and…
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Disk snapshot size created from a google compute engine exceeds used space

I have a Google Compute Instance (VM) that has a 2TB disk and around 80GB used space. I wanted to archive this VM so that I don't get billed for the whole 2TB, and also so that it is ready to be recreated quickly if needed. Disk Snapshots seemed to…
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Are there hooks for Windows Updates?

It would be really neat to be able to attach a "blocking hook" to when a Windows Update gets installed so that I could take a snapshot on an ESXi of the machine in question before the update is installed. In Windows I would imagine that you'd attach…
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Azure snapshots as VM templates

I have multiple users that all need to use almost identical VMs - the VMs should have the same OS and same software installed. I can create one VM, set it up properly and create a snapshot that others can use to start their VMs from. Is this the…
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Deep Freeze for Linux. Reverting server to a previous state, kind of a "snapshot" being a physical machine (not a VM)

I work in an enviroment with a lot of Linux Servers and a few Windows servers. When we perfom some changes in the Windows ones it is very easy to go back to the original state using "Deep Freeze" software. In the Linux servers if it is a VM we have…
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Accidentally executed: sudo rm -r /*

This morning while I was doing a bit of work on my production server, when I accidentally executed the following command: sudo rm -r /* Sadly, the server no longer accept my public key or password for any user via SSH. And files were hosted on…
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Openstack- unable to login from snapshot instance

I took a snapshot from one instance in an openstack and put the snapshot as image in another openstack deployment, then tried to run it on a flavor that has greater hardware than required. Everything seems to go smooth but I'm unable to login into…
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HyperV Old Snapshots with No Reference - Can I Delete Them?

We've became aware recently of an issue with Hyper-V and some old snapshots that I'm assuming have been caused by failed Veeam backups (and the checkpoints not being deleted). It's a HyperV Failover Cluster with Server 2016. If I go into the…
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K8S volume snapshots - any way to export and import snapshots manually?

I have snapshotting enabled in my k8s cluster, and am able to snapshot my volumes - yet I have not found documentation on how to actually store those snapshots outside the cluster without using a product or specialized deployment to store them…
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Snapshot schedule is not attaching boot disk

I created a VM and snapshot schedule with terraform modules on GCP. The code is attaching the additional disks but not the boot disk. Any idea what is needed to be changed to the below code to include the boot disk. Any help will be…
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VMware Server 2 Snapshots Crashing Ubuntu Guests

I have about 20+ Ubuntu Guests running on Vmware Server 2.0.2 and every night a backup script takes a snapshot of all running VMs, backs them up, then removes the snapshots. Every morning I check the machines to find at least 1 or 2 are somehow…
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Is there a way to re-build a physical machine (into golden image) without dedicated hardware?

I have a small office (total of 6 computers) for translation, Due to the fact that many of the documents are private and personal and the security risk of opening word documents, pdf and so, I would like to achieve a situation in which at the end of…
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Problems with USB-Devices using VDR

I'm using VDR on vSphere4. It works sucessfully. I've already backuped several VMs with VDR and I like it very much. But now we got a problem. We have 2 VMs, using an USB-Device Server with a stick plugged in, which is definetely need by these 2 VMs…
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How long has a snapshot been running?

Assume I made a snapshot of a certain VM one week ago. Today I revert to that snapshot, I think this means the delta.vmdk gets deleted (e.g. everything after the snapshot is lost). I think this also means that a new delta is created, from that…
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ESXi 6.0 Consolidation

I had a snapshot that had eaten the free space in a datastore. I deleted the snapshot and now the snapshot manager is empty but I see delta disks and disks such as -0002.vmdk,... -0005.vmdk etc are still in the datastore. I made consolidation (as…
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