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.
Questions tagged [snapshot]
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apt-get is stuck with mysql after creating a vm from snapshot in Google cloud
I'm using Google cloud and I have a vm (Ubuntu 18.04) that is working fine. The apt-get command works totally fine and mysql service is running well. Let's call it vm-1
I needed to create another a duplicate vm, so I first made a snapshot of vm-1,…
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gcloud snapshot created in region, not zone, when executed from cron job
Trying to fire off a gcloud snapshot from a cron job on a ubuntu compute-engine. When executed from an ssh session:
gcloud compute disks snapshot disk-1 --zone=us-west1-b --snapshot-names=${snapshot-name}
creates a snapshot with the given name in…
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gcloud.compute root cron job snapshot "Insufficient Permission: Request had insufficient authentication scope"
I've set up a cron job on a google compute ubuntu system to take a snapshot.
When run from an ssh session, the cron script creates a snapshot fine. However, when run as root from a cron job, the
"gcloud compute disks snapshot"
command fails with the…
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Nginx not starting exists with error: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed
Recently, I created a Digital Ocean instance and set it up with a basic LEMP stack. I also connected it to a domain with this nginx configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
root /var/www/example.com;
…
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Gcloud compute snapshot of re-created disk is not complete?
I recently recreated a disk / vm image in google compute from a previous set of snapshots. Those snapshots are currently dated and sized as follows:
- May 20 60 MB
- May 21 372 MB
- May 22 255 MB
- May 23 118 MB
- May 24 93…
GaryA
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gcloud compute engine - multiple full backups / snapshots / machine images?
On a gcloud debian vm instance, I would like to create full backups and rotate them, e.g.
one per day of week
one per week
one per month
one per year
That is, each daily would get over-written every seven days, weekly each month,
monthly…
GaryA
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Snapshots could fail if VM are running delta files?
On VMware 6.5, VMs are running on CTK Delta files, could this causes inconsistency on storage level snapshot?
Zeus_vm
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AWS: difference between instance snapshot and volume snapshot
What is the difference between an AWS instance snapshot and volume snapshot?
I am implementing "Lifecycle Manager", and my goal is to create a system that will allow for fast recovery of a server in the event of corruption, hacking, or stupid…
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What would you call this "RAID" ? RAID 1+6?
I have Snapraid running as snapshot RAID6 (2-parity disks) for my 9 disk array which calculates new parity once a day. Then I have Drivepool duplicating certain very important folders on the array to all the data disks in realtime as in RAID1.…
Osjur
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Google cloud VM and scheduled snapshots on attached persistent disk
in the case of scheduled shapshots on a persistent ssd disk mounted on a VM, I read in the doc that the backup must not be set here /etc/fstab to ensure that the disk mounts on its own when the VM is…
Enrico
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Why would deleting an incremental snapshot increase the space usage & cost?
Google Cloud Platform
From the Google Cloud docs: https://cloud.google.com/compute/disks-image-pricing#persistent_disk_snapshots
When you delete a complete or incremental snapshot, some of its data may move to the next incremental snapshot in the…
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Bulk delete ec2 snapshots from Jenkins
Use case:
Export list of snapshots in txt file (old_snapshots.txt) to S3 bucket. From Jenkins, use aws cp command copy file to Jenkins /tmp/directory
--dry-run did not show any error
However, when passed the following bash line with aws delete…
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Autofs mounted /home/ not included in backup
I have autofs mounted shared /home directories setup on server and it is working perfectly, when i need dir, it is mounted automaticly, when i dont, it is not present. But now i am working on backup scripts and noticed something weird.
In every…
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libvirt: guest performance during backup
Here is a simplified version of my backup script that runs in the host:
# shutdown the guest to ensure its filesystem is in a stable state
virsh shutdown web --mode=acpi
sleep 20s # the real script uses a smarter method to wait for the guest…
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creating snapshot for mongodb
I am trying to create snapshot for mongodb on centos 6.6.
root@ ~]# lvscan
File descriptor 12 (pipe:[23409]) leaked on lvscan invocation. Parent
PID 3579: /bin/bash
File descriptor 13 (pipe:[23409]) leaked on lvscan invocation. Parent
PID…
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