Thank you very much, I'll test a change of a VM disk.

Best regards

2015-01-23 11:27 GMT+01:00 Carlos Martín Sánchez <cmar...@opennebula.org>:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Manuel Alfonso López Rourich <
> alfonso.lo...@cenits.es> wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I'd like to create a back-up copy of a VM and move it to another zone, so
>> that if there is any problem I could restore the VM to a previous state.
>>
>> I found that in ONE 4.6 you can create a VM or a disk snapshot, and I saw
>> that related snapshot files remain associated with the VM, in its own zone.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is to move those files to another zone (for example
>> the disk snapshot image) or at least move them to another machine, to avoid
>> those files to be in the same machine which has been used to deploy the
>> zone.
>>
>> Is there any way to do that? what are the files associated with the
>> snapshots?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>
> I think you could use a live disk snapshot [1] for that. OpenNebula will
> create a new Image in the same datastore as the original Image, and then
> you can clone that new img to a different DS [2] (in the same zone).
>
> Moving images to a different zone is not supported. To do that, you can
> take the image file from the DS, the file's path is stored in the SOURCE
> attribute shown in 'oneimage show <id>'. This will be straight forward for
> file-based datastores, not so much for other type of drivers. Then register
> a new image in the new zone as usual.
>
> Hope it helps
>
> [1]
> http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/user/virtual_resource_management/vm_guide_2.html#disk-snapshoting
> [2]
> http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/user/virtual_resource_management/img_guide.html#clone-images
>
> --
> Carlos Martín, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
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>
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