[pve-devel] ZFSPlugin snapshot question

[Dietmar Maurer]

> On August 28, 2015 at 12:19 PM "datanom.net" <mir at datanom.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2015-08-28 10:25, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > Another approach would be:
> > 
> > 1.) create a clone
> > 2.) backup cloned VM with 'stop' mode
> > 
> > That way we do not even need to implement 'snapshot' backups ;-)
> > 
> > Any comments about that idea?
> Will creating a clone instead of a snapshot not take considerably longer 
> compared to a snapshot?

Yes, i guess so. It also has other problems, because not all storage type
supports
cloning from snapshots ...
So it was an interesting idea, but does not really solve all problems :-/