Where will be the VM snapshot backup is stored?

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In sunstone server or node server? What is the exact location?

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What hypervisor are you using? Depending on this, the snapshot location differs.

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Hypervisor: KVM

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The VM snapshots are stored in the system datastore (/var/lib/one/datastores). Do you have shared storage between your nodes? If so, the snapshots are available as well in the front-end, otherwise you’ll need to go to the node where the VM is running.

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cd /var/lib/one/datastores/122/66

This the snapshot generated in sunstone.

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I’am not able to find the snapshot of vm in system datastore? What could be the problem?

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Hi,

The VM snapshot is embeded in the disk’s qcow2 file and there is additional metadata somewhere in /var/lib/libvirt or similar path - can’t remember where though. Just look around.

Hope this helps,
Anton Todorov