Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/13/2018 01:27 PM, bruce wrote: For the "/etc" what files/dirs would you suggest to be copied from the base to the target?? That really depends on what the server is doing. What services are you running on it? For example, if you're running Apache, then you'll want the /etc/httpd

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread bruce
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 02/12/2018 06:34 PM, bruce wrote: >> >> I'm thinking that I've screwed up some "dir/files" that are unique to >> a droplet and used for the snapshot process.. I can't find any data on >> how the "snapshot/vm" process really

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/12/2018 06:34 PM, bruce wrote: I'm thinking that I've screwed up some "dir/files" that are unique to a droplet and used for the snapshot process.. I can't find any data on how the "snapshot/vm" process really is implemented within digitalocean. My last hope is to iteratively rsync, testing

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/13/2018 09:50 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: Keep in mind that the vast majority of VM implementations use sparse filesystems (e.g. qcow2). This can confuse the filesystem massively if you simply take a sparse 60G filesystem (where only 20G is used) and stick it on a 40G drive. Yes, only 20G is

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-13 Thread Rick Stevens
On 02/12/2018 06:34 PM, bruce wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 12Feb2018 21:08, bruce wrote: >>> >>> I'm testing digital ocean creating droplets/snapshots/etc.. >>> >>> I've create droplets, and from them - snapshots

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-12 Thread bruce
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12Feb2018 21:08, bruce wrote: >> >> I'm testing digital ocean creating droplets/snapshots/etc.. >> >> I've create droplets, and from them - snapshots which have allowed me >> to regenerate

Re: off topic -- vm issues

2018-02-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Feb2018 21:08, bruce wrote: I'm testing digital ocean creating droplets/snapshots/etc.. I've create droplets, and from them - snapshots which have allowed me to regenerate additional droplets. Droplets are VM/copies of servers.. Snapshots are compressed images.