# [OmniOS-discuss] Auto snapshots?

Theo Schlossnagle jesus at omniti.com
Wed Apr 24 12:47:31 EDT 2013

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    I thought we were taking about running OmniOS inside of vmware. My mistake.
    On Apr 24, 2013 8:08 AM, "Nicholas George" <headlesscow at gmail.com> wrote:

    > Dan's exactly right. After the ZFS snapshot, you can actually remove the
    > VMware snapshot as well since it's only purpose is to exist in the ZFS
    > snapshot so that you can roll back to it after recovering the VM from the
    > ZFS snapshot.
    >
    >
    > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz at druber.com>wrote:
    >
    >> > Wouldn't you want to snapshot the ZFS system and then quiesce and
    >> snapshot
    >> > the VM?
    >> >
    >> > Step one: zfs snapshot; step two: make it not a lie.
    >>
    >> Because the VM snapshot would not be against the ZFS snapshot, but rather,
    >> the live filesystem.  So you take a hot snap (VMware), then a zfs snap.
    >> If you have to roll back, you can restore the entire VM directory, which
    >> would present you with the VM snapshot to then roll back to.
    >>
    >>
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