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
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
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
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
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
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
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.