bthoven Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 I've created a new Debian VM and installed some basic setup on it, e.g. making user as a sudoer, x11vnc, etc. I want to back it up as my own customized image so that I may need to create another VM like this in the future without having to setup those things again. What should be the right process to backing up the said vdisk1.img and use it later for creating another VM with different VM name and hostname? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Copy the vdisk, you can do a reflink copy if you want to use less space, then just create a new VM and point to it. Quote Link to comment
bthoven Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 Thanks. Will the changes in the new VM also change the original vdisk1? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 No, only the copy. Quote Link to comment
bthoven Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 Thanks. I opened Unraid console, created a new folder in domains folder and I used the following command. It didn't work. My cache is brtfs. What I did wrong? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 That suggests COW is disabled for that share, that was old Unraid default. Quote Link to comment
bthoven Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 (edited) My cache drive COW is set to Auto. Is it supposed to allow me to cp --reflink? Edited December 13, 2022 by bthoven Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 Shares -> Domains -> "Enable Copy-on-write" check if it's "Off" Quote Link to comment
bthoven Posted December 13, 2022 Author Share Posted December 13, 2022 (edited) It is No. I understand that I can't simply change it to Yes? Edited December 13, 2022 by bthoven Quote Link to comment
Solution JorgeB Posted December 13, 2022 Solution Share Posted December 13, 2022 Nope, you'll need to create a regular copy. 1 Quote Link to comment
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