On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 17:21:52 -0600, Eyüp Hakan Duran wrote: > Dear all, > Please let me start by indicating that I am not from a technical > background, so please be gentle and patient with me. > > I am trying to get a snapshot from my virtual machines (vm) and the > following > command works for all of them bar one: > > # virsh snapshot-create-as --quiesce --no-metadata --domain myvm myvm-state > --diskspec vda,file=overlay.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic You can drop --atomic if you use a qemu released in at least last 5 years as the snapshot is always atomic if the qemu supports the 'transaction' command. > > The only exception is this one vm, which has two disks as two separete > qcow2 files: vda and vdb. Vdb contains my nexcloud data, resides on a > btrfs subvolume, and a daily snapshot of this subvolume is taken by a > cronjob > by the host machine. Therefore, I do not want to include it in the > snapshot taken by virsh, and therefore I did not include vdb as a > separate --diskspec item, and used the same command indicated above. > However, this fails with the following behavior: a state (or rather > overlay file with a qcow2 extension is created on the host machine's > directory where the image of vdb exists. My question is the following: > Is there a way to direct virsh for only taking a snapshot ignoring one > of the disks? Yes, I can always create that second snapshot/overlay Sure. Just use a second --diskspec vdb,snapshot=no > image of vdb and delete it later, but it doesn't feel very intuitive, > and efficient. However, it is quite possible that I may be completely > overseeing an important aspect of the process, and this may not be possible > due to that :). One disadvantage of the above operation is that the snapshot of vdb is not from the same time as vda, but if that doesn't pose a problem in your scenario it's okay to do it that way. > > Thanks for your inputs in advance. > > Hakan Duran > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users