From Ryan.Groten at stantec.com Wed Aug 27 17:49:05 2014 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1327359891226742013==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Groten, Ryan To: users at ovirt.org Subject: [ovirt-users] How long can a disk snapshot exist for? Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:49:02 -0600 Message-ID: <61A8344D117D814CA4DA393472F38CF401895DA3DE@CD1001-M360.corp.ads> --===============1327359891226742013== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --_000_61A8344D117D814CA4DA393472F38CF401895DA3DECD1001M360cor_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there any limit/performance considerations to keeping a disk snapshot fo= =3D r extended periods of time? What if the disk is changing frequently vs mos= =3D tly static? Thanks, Ryan --_000_61A8344D117D814CA4DA393472F38CF401895DA3DECD1001M360cor_ Content-Type: text/html; charset=3D"us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Thanks,

Ryan

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