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The easiest and fastest method to take snapshots of servers?

I’m looking for a free system to take snapshots that can then be deployed on another server.
What is the simplest method you would recommend?

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  • MannDudeMannDude Patron Provider, Veteran

    What sort of virtualization are you currently using? KVM?

  • @MannDude said:
    What sort of virtualization are you currently using? KVM?

    Yes, it is KVM virtualization

  • MivoCloudMivoCloud Member, Host Rep

    Hey, u can try to use panel like - VirtFusion, SolusVM, or OpenStack it will help you to take snapshot. Also there is automated backup solutions which you can use.

  • Proxmox + ZFS ?
    LXC + ZFS ?

  • He may not have the permissions of the host to use the qemu-img command.

    I think the best solution in this case is to use containers, such as Docker.

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    @jschroeder said:

    He may not have the permissions of the host to use the qemu-img command.

    Nested virtualization.

  • @yoursunny said: Nested virtualization.

    His provider may not enable vmx or svm instructions on the virtual machine.

  • LVM or btrfs?

  • yoursunnyyoursunny Member, IPv6 Advocate

    @jschroeder said:

    @yoursunny said: Nested virtualization.

    His provider may not enable vmx or svm instructions on the virtual machine.

    Cancel and move on.

  • The easiest and fastest method to take snapshots of servers?

  • SpeedBusSpeedBus Member, Host Rep

    If you have a rescue-cd operating system available via the CD-ROM option, you could use that and then dd the image out via ssh onto the new server?

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  • @yoursunny said:

    @jschroeder said:

    He may not have the permissions of the host to use the qemu-img command.

    Nested virtualization.

    That would be bad failure recovery design.

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member
    edited December 2024

    @SpeedBus said:
    If you have a rescue-cd operating system available via the CD-ROM option, you could use that and then dd the image out via ssh onto the new server?

    This is easy (relatively speaking) to you?

  • Veeam, if for yourself and not for consulting.

  • @exe said:
    I’m looking for a free system to take snapshots that can then be deployed on another server.
    What is the simplest method you would recommend?

    https://www.jumpserver.com/ Fortress Server, a product of Chinese characteristics, not only meets the function of your snapshots, and even what you have done video can be, but also can help you audit.

  • @tdy0923 said:

    @exe said:
    I’m looking for a free system to take snapshots that can then be deployed on another server.
    What is the simplest method you would recommend?

    https://www.jumpserver.com/ Fortress Server, a product of Chinese characteristics, not only meets the function of your snapshots, and even what you have done video can be, but also can help you audit.

    Wut? Nothing on the link you posted mentions anything about snapshots.

  • @TimboJones said:

    @tdy0923 said:

    @exe said:
    I’m looking for a free system to take snapshots that can then be deployed on another server.
    What is the simplest method you would recommend?

    https://www.jumpserver.com/ Fortress Server, a product of Chinese characteristics, not only meets the function of your snapshots, and even what you have done video can be, but also can help you audit.

    Wut? Nothing on the link you posted mentions anything about snapshots.

    He's interfacing protocols such as online storage S3 with video, which is a little different from snapshots, but better.

  • @tdy0923 said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @tdy0923 said:

    @exe said:
    I’m looking for a free system to take snapshots that can then be deployed on another server.
    What is the simplest method you would recommend?

    https://www.jumpserver.com/ Fortress Server, a product of Chinese characteristics, not only meets the function of your snapshots, and even what you have done video can be, but also can help you audit.

    Wut? Nothing on the link you posted mentions anything about snapshots.

    He's interfacing protocols such as online storage S3 with video, which is a little different from snapshots, but better.

    Not sure why you're here or commenting. Whatever translation tools you're using are terrible.

    The OP is talking about backing up a server frequently to be deployed on another machine. Nothing to do with S3, video, or account management.

    Get lost.

  • @TimboJones said:

    @tdy0923 said:

    @TimboJones said:

    @tdy0923 said:

    @exe said:
    I’m looking for a free system to take snapshots that can then be deployed on another server.
    What is the simplest method you would recommend?

    https://www.jumpserver.com/ Fortress Server, a product of Chinese characteristics, not only meets the function of your snapshots, and even what you have done video can be, but also can help you audit.

    Wut? Nothing on the link you posted mentions anything about snapshots.

    He's interfacing protocols such as online storage S3 with video, which is a little different from snapshots, but better.

    Not sure why you're here or commenting. Whatever translation tools you're using are terrible.

    The OP is talking about backing up a server frequently to be deployed on another machine. Nothing to do with S3, video, or account management.

    Get lost.

    I really don't have a way to translate the whole thing, because the introduction of this software in Chinese is a lot different from the introduction in English, well, I think it's a difficult thing for me to try to make it clear 。。。。

    If you think your translation software is good enough, you can read the Chinese instructions!

    https://www.jumpserver.org/features.html Especially the Othe part of the function.

    “asset synchronisation”
    “Supports automatic synchronisation of public and private cloud assets (supports 23 cloud platforms including AliCloud, Tencent Cloud, Huawei Cloud, AWS China, AWS International, Azure China, Azure International, Google Cloud, VMware, etc.); supports automatic discovery of assets on the LAN;”

    It has a description of remote one-click deployment, database linking, Video cloud storage which I don't know how it translates to you guys.But I do know that as exe describes it, this might help him. As this software is available in English and free of cost, it helps him to migrate data from his current machine and manage multiple servers.

    OK, I explained why I am here and replied to the message, do you have any questions?

    You can ignore my comment if it didn't help him.

  • exeexe Member
    edited December 2024

    Guys, the issue lies in the following: I tried using rclone, but the configuration is tricky because to backup to OneDrive, you need to use the Windows console to get the token. On Linux, the browser doesn't open as rclone expects. So I need an alternative method that's easy to configure.

    Is it really that hard to take a server snapshot on Linux?

  • Restic?

  • awawaawawa Member
    edited December 2024

    raw btrfs subvolume snapshot and btrfs send/receive shell script
    snapper

  • @exe said:
    Guys, the issue lies in the following: I tried using rclone, but the configuration is tricky because to backup to OneDrive, you need to use the Windows console to get the token. On Linux, the browser doesn't open as rclone expects. So I need an alternative method that's easy to configure.

    Is it really that hard to take a server snapshot on Linux?

    You can do this all on Windows and copy the rclone config to your Linux server, IIRC.

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