Snapshots of running VMs ZVOLS on Scale

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Perhaps this will help:

Periodic Snapshots - Automatically shutdown and startup Virtual Machines

Problem/Justification You cannot do Periodic Snapshots of a running Virtual Machine safely because the backed up data cannot be relied on. You should only ever backup an offline VM otherwise you risk data corruption in the backup. Impact I cannot backup my Virtual Machines safely using automatic functionality in TrueNAS. This issue prevents an administrator doing a fully automatic backup strategy. User Story I have a webserver running on my TrueNAS and I have to manually shut it down, take a…