PR2 Snapshotting & Restoring
PR2 Snapshotting & Restoring
We will use virsh to manage our snapshots of the VMs and their disks.
We'll need some blank file to store our XML data, and then store the XML data from a VM:
touch [backup-name].xml sudo virsh dumpxml > [backup-name].xml
Now we'll make our snapshot:
sudo virsh snapshot-create-as --domain [vm-name] --name [backup-name]
You can see the list of snapshots for a certain VM via:
sudo virsh snapshot-list --domain [vm-name]
To restore your VM from a certain snapshot (make sure to turn it off prior):
sudo virsh snapshot-revert [vm-name] [vm-snapshot]
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- ajanib
- Last Edited
- Mar 22 2019, 2:25 PM