[OmniOS-discuss] Auto snapshots?

Dan Swartzendruber dswartz at druber.com
Tue Apr 23 18:49:37 EDT 2013


> Wouldn't you want to snapshot the ZFS system and then quiesce and snapshot
> the VM?
>
> Step one: zfs snapshot; step two: make it not a lie.

Because the VM snapshot would not be against the ZFS snapshot, but rather,
the live filesystem.  So you take a hot snap (VMware), then a zfs snap. 
If you have to roll back, you can restore the entire VM directory, which
would present you with the VM snapshot to then roll back to.



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