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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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Windows NTFS Data Deduplication and Snapshot Backups

We have a file server (fs00) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Running Windows Server 2019 (with Desktop Experience installed). One OS / System disk (250GB SSD) An independent data disk (5TB standard tier) Backups performed via disk snapshots with…
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Can we resize the EBS volume when snapshot is in progress?

I've an ec2 instance with root volume and additional volume attached, additional volume is 92% used. I took a ebs snapshot , but looks like its very slow. Can I go ahead and increase the volume size and expand the volume while snapshot is in…
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How do I best archive VMWare VMs for reuse?

I'm using VMWare ESX 3.5. I've just created a couple of different-flavour VMs (a Windows 2008 one and a Windows 2003 one), installed windows updates, and am generally happy with their pristine nature. I will want to run them now, but reuse them from…
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Copying large snapshot images to remote storage Linux

I need to copy snapshots of virtual machines running on Proxmox (KVM) servers and copy the snapshots to offsite storage. Most snapshots are a few gb, but some are rather large, up to 200gb. I would prefer to compress and copy the snapshots in one…
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How to replace ZFS pool root with a snapshot after replication

I'm replacing some failing disks with new ones, and rather than replace them one by one I have created a new ZFS pool on the new disks, and copied the old pool over to the new one. I did this at the pool level so all the volumes within would be…
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Is it safe to send ZFS-snapshots incrementally ignoring some intermediate snapshots?

Some background. I'm using ZREP to replicate two servers with each other and each server contains one ZFS-pool containing two datasets as replication master and two sets as replication target. The master sets contain the system and VirtualBox-VMs of…
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Hyper-V 2016 not merging on checkpoint delete, "Cannot locate parent virtual hard disk"

This is semi-consistent behavior. I set a checkpoint on my guest VMs when I update an application, and run it for a month or so until the next one is due. At least half the time, when I right-click and delete a checkpoint, it goes faster than it…
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Are EBS snapshots deleted when the volume itself is deleted?

I have a client who are 'upgrading' their OS but tearing down the entire instance, creating a new one based on the updated AMI and creating the setup including EBS volume. When they delete the EBS volume, all the shapshots are also removed, right?…
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How to do a snapshot of a Datastore on esxi vmware - datastore snapshot as fast recovery backup

I have a server with hundreads of vms and the snapshot is very useful to me, on incidents i can restore a vm to a point on time in no time, but i have many datastores where operational data is stored and all bkp is done on LTO tapes, but the restore…
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Pruning ZFS snapshot contents -- impossible?

I have a problem in a server that has several dozen snapshots of a ZFS fileset. Back in November we received files that turned out to be for another organization. The content of the files is very sensitive, so the files were deleted. However, by the…
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How to calculate space required to delete snapshot

I wish to to some work on a virtual server, work which requires there to be no snapshots on the virtual machine. At the moment I have one snapshot on the machine, taken yesterday. If I use the option "Delete Snapshot", will it consolidate the…
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How long will it take to create a new EBS volume from a 1TB snapshot?

I am taking periodic snapshots of a 1TB EBS (Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Store) volume as backup. In the case of the whole AZ (Availability Zone) becoming unavailable, my Disaster Recovery plan is to create a new EBS volume from the latest…
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Unable to revert snapshot: "the vendor of the processors in this machine is not the same"

Recently we moved to a new Intel-based ESXi 6.0 server from an older ESXi 5.5 AMD-based server, both with 64bit processors. We just copied the VMs folders from the old server to the new one, then powered them on and answered "I moved it" to the…
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VMware snapshot merge vs delete on "DELETE ALL"

A simple version of this question has been asked before (and links to VMware site for simple scenarios exist) - but this is a bit more complicated. I have 4 snapshot scenarios under VMware esxi 5.5: and I want to know what happens when I click…
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SQL Server VSS writer interfering with VMWare snapshots

After changing to TSM for the VMWare backups, we've started experiencing an odd issue with our Snapshot backups. We take system drive snapshots as a backup solution for the machine states. All the other drives are independent drives, with their data…
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