Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Question regarding Snapshots
On 02/27/2017 07:17 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 01:33:56PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
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>>> Can you make a snapshot, then go back to the base and ignore that snapshot
>>> like a closed branch, make another snapshot, and then go back and forth
>>> from each to each?
Yes. Or graphically, you can have:
-- A ... B ... C
/
base <
\
-- D ... E ... F
and toggle between any of the named snapshots at will. As Kashyap and
others pointed out, libvirt support for reverting to a particular
external snapshot is not fully present, so there are some manual steps
involved, but the task is still doable.
> For the long answer to the complications involved in reverting to
> external snapshots, refer this (long read):
>
>
https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/I_created_an_external_snapshot,_but_libvirt...
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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