[Users] Exporting backing up Snapshots

[Neil]

Hi Ofri,

Thank you very much, you understood correctly, I was looking for a
method of making an entire image basically, but misunderstood what a
snapshot was, so thanks for clearing that up.

Much appreciated.

Regards.

Neil Wilson.

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Ofri Masad <omasad at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a way to save the full state of the VM+Disks like an image.
> Snapshots are actually just delta from the former state. that is the reason they do not consume as much space as a full image.
>
> What you can do is use the export feature for VMs. just export the VM. by doing so you are saving both the VM state and the Disks state.
> Of course, this would require more space than used in a snapshot.
>
> Ofri
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Neil" <nwilson123 at gmail.com>
>> To: users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:00:53 PM
>> Subject: [Users] Exporting backing up Snapshots
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm working on automating snapshots(not live, just paused) from my
>> oVirt setup at the moment, but I can't seem to find out how to export
>> the snapshots for backing up purposes so they can be moved to another
>> storage domain etc.
>>
>> Please could someone point me in the right direction
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Neil Wilson.
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