Backup and/or snapshot only the boot disk of a virtual machine.
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Ok that sounds good. Do I understand correctly that this is then possible not only for snapshots but also for backups?
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Backup are relying on snapshots, so yes
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@olivierlambert Interesting... this has been possible for some time now using "xe vdi-export" and "xe vdi-import" to be able to choose a particular disk to back up or restore. I guess it just wasn't implemented yet in the management interface?
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Yes, but when you do a disk snapshot, you don't backup the whole VM, just the disks. VDI snap won't trigger the VSS capabilities that you have with VM.snapshot, that's why we needed to implement a VM.snapshot feature with disk exclusion
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@olivierlambert Of course, but that can be done by cloning the VM and detaching all its disks, and backing up that duplicate VM. In addition, then one needs to back up the selected VDI of the boot disk.
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Not really, because if you have disks that can't be snapshot/cloned (like raw drives), then you won't be able to do it at all.
That's why the best approach is to extend VM.snapshot with disk exclusion, as we did
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@olivierlambert Is there a date known when 8.3 will be released?
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The first alpha ISO is just a matter of weeks.
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@olivierlambert Hello Olivier, Another year since the question. Time flies
By now, do you know the eta of version 8.3? And is it still an option in that version to be able to backup only the boot disk.Kind regards,
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You can already use the 8.3 beta 1
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Ok. Great
I wait for the release. Thanks
