[OmniOS-discuss] Auto snapshots?

[Theo Schlossnagle]

I thought we were taking about running OmniOS inside of vmware. My mistake.
On Apr 24, 2013 8:08 AM, "Nicholas George" <headlesscow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dan's exactly right. After the ZFS snapshot, you can actually remove the
> VMware snapshot as well since it's only purpose is to exist in the ZFS
> snapshot so that you can roll back to it after recovering the VM from the
> ZFS snapshot.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz at druber.com>wrote:
>
>> > 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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