One of the claimed benefits for containers was the ability to snapshot them. However, I don’t see any way to do this in the UI, except perhaps as a cron job.
There’s no way to snapshot and backup lxc in 25.10…
Yes, I had to create a cron job to zfs snapshot <pool>/.ix-virt/containers/<container name> myself.
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Doesn’t TN create a dataset per container? If yes, snapshot that.
Can’t from the ui because like apps iXvolume they’re stored in a hidden dataset called .ix-virt
Yes, but it’s not visible in the UI. I had to manually snapshot it in a cron job.
Yep. The current design is to hide the dataset in the GUI, so there is no GUI option and you simply cannot do it unless you figure out and create your own script.
Will TN 26 either add a proper backup procedure, or allow the users to create their own replication from the GUI??
If not, this should still be considered/labeled as experimental.
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