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Inside Proxmox’s LVM Snapshot Chains

For years, virtualization admins have mentally separated storage into a few neat buckets: Storage Type Snapshot Method qcow2 on filesystem qcow2 backing chains/internal snapshots ZFS Native CoW snapshots VMware VMFS Delta VMDK chains Then Proxmox decided to make things weird. Recently I started digging into Proxmox’s experimental snapshot-as-volume-chain functionality for LVM storage and quickly realized…

Your Snapshots Aren’t the Problem. Your Restore Process Is.

I built a platform for restoring Proxmox VMs from Pure Storage snapshots. The storage part was easy. Fixing the workflow was the real engineering. TLDR: GitHub – PureStorage-OpenConnect/proxmox-pure-snap-restore: A utility to allow restoring Proxmox LVM based VMs from FlashArrary snapshots · GitHub There’s a familiar enterprise fairy tale: “We have snapshots.” Everyone nods. Risk has…

So you want to restore a Proxmox VM from an array snapshot?

So you’ve been using array based snapshots for your “backups” on your KVM based cloud? Don’t lie I know you’ve been doing it. Your DR plan involves some shoestring and bubble gum. Maybe some duct tape? I know I’ve done it too. Everything untested just have the data somewhere and some hope that you can…

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