bphillips330 Posted October 22, 2023 Share Posted October 22, 2023 Not sure where exactly to post this, so trying here. Please advise if should be in another sub-thread. I am running newest version of unraid for background. I have a nvme drive in server formatted to BTRFS and running a couple vm's on them. Windows 10 vm Arch Linux VM Home assistant etc. The image files are qcow2 also. I attempted this a year or two ago and don't think drives were btrfs back then and tried doing snapshots with qcow2 commands. I might have done them wrong as nothing worked. Just kept getting bad images and could not restore. So, I abandoned the idea and just when I remember (which never happens) I just backup the image file to a backup folder. I would like to automate a snapshot routine so I could snapshot my vm, like vmware. Is this doable. I believe btrfs and zfs drives have snapshot abilities. Can I be pointed in right direction? Or assisted in the process for me to take a snapshot, mainly of my windows vm, but other ones would be nice. TIA! Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 FAQ has some info about btrfs snapshots, also note that 6.13 will include GUI support for snapshots, so possibly best to just wait a little more. Quote Link to comment
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