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Old 9th June 2008
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Originally Posted by phoenix View Post
We're snapshotting the backups, not the VMs.

We run rsync inside the VMs to sync back to a FreeBSD box using ZFS. Then snapshot the filesystem once all the backups are done. So far, for 6 servers, the snapshots take up just under 1 GB for 1 day of data.
So I take it snapshots are not useful by themselves for backup. Forgive me for being ignorant but snapshots are not an actual copy of the data? I have always been confused by this. So if I have a 1GB file and take a snapshot of it, can I recreate the file from the snapshot?

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