March 6Mar 6 I'm just about done setting up my test system before moving my NAS to Unraid.I have ZFS disks and a backup strategy set for my cache/pools with ZFS snapshots. My VM is on a disk that has ZFS:I noticed in the VM Snapshot window it offers ZFS snapshots using the native FS. When I create one of these - I can't find it anywhere. The snapshots.db file creates an entry for it. I don't see the snapshot it says it created in the zfs list -t snapshot listing, nor on the main tab with ZFS-Master.When I attempt to restore to one of the snapshots, it appears to work and removes the snapshot - however on the guest VM I still have the dummy file I created to test.Do I need to do anything else to configure the ZFS VM snapshots, or should I just rely on the non-VM specific snapshots?Thanks!
March 6Mar 6 It's working for me. Also, you are cutting off the ZFS master screenshot where it would show if there are snapshots or not.Please post the output from zfs list -t all
March 6Mar 6 Community Expert 13 hours ago, unraider99x3 said:I'm just about done setting up my test system before moving my NAS to Unraid.I have ZFS disks and a backup strategy set for my cache/pools with ZFS snapshots.My VM is on a disk that has ZFS:I noticed in the VM Snapshot window it offers ZFS snapshots using the native FS.When I create one of these - I can't find it anywhere. The snapshots.db file creates an entry for it. I don't see the snapshot it says it created in the zfs list -t snapshot listing, nor on the main tab with ZFS-Master.When I attempt to restore to one of the snapshots, it appears to work and removes the snapshot - however on the guest VM I still have the dummy file I created to test.Do I need to do anything else to configure the ZFS VM snapshots, or should I just rely on the non-VM specific snapshots?Thanks!I did reply on discord also. ZFS snapshots any only creating them. there is no additional management, as this would be covered in the wider OS for enhanced management of ZFS(Future)
March 6Mar 6 Author Thanks very much for the reply (and on discord!).You pointed me to where the issue was - I think. The vdisk1.img file is on disk1, which is a ZFS file system with a domains dataset, and a UbuntuTest dataset.When the VM configuration points to the vdisk via /mnt/user/domains/UbuntuTest/vdisk1.img the snapshots are not created (because user is not a zfs dataset/pool).When the VM configuration points to the vdisk via /mnt/disk1/domains/UbuntuTest/vdisk1.img the snapshots are created (because disk1 is a zfs pool).So I think it was my bad referring to the VM via the user share, instead of the disk directly.Please let me know if this is the correct reasoning.Thank you for the help!
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