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How to assign the correct drive letter during windows boots with snapshot
I´am using Drive Snapshot http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/restboot.htm to restore a windows image during windows reboot.
I got the C:\ Partition and a CD-ROM drive.
I copied the image on a external ...
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Taking a snapshot of your HDD, so you can revert back to it anytime
I have an OS installed in VirtualBox and like how I can take a snapshot of the current state of the OS before making changes to it, from changing settings, to installing software, to applying updates, ...
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How to remove virtualbox VM with snapshots?
I have a VM with many snapshots. I don't need this machine anymore, and I need disk space. Snapshots eat a significant amount of disk space.
But when I try to delete it by VirtualBox means - there is ...
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How to incrementally backup a partition (not as a bunch of files) and be able to mount the snapshots?
Is there any tools that allows this use case:
I have a LVM2 partition vg-vol;
I periodically create snapshots of it, save them (create_new_snapshot --directory=/media/external_storage/snapshots/ ...
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Quickest way to merge snapshots in VirtualBox?
I have vdi with quite a number of snapshots taken from it - say, 50 or 70 snapshots.
I want to have one plain vdi with a current state. These snapshots take way too much disk space and are not needed ...
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Keyboard layout *image* creator
Is there a program for creating images of keyboard layouts? The program would be able to put a background image on each key but also provide its text. One could do it in Inkscape or such, but it would ...
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Linux: get snapshot from webcam
What are some different ways of grabbing a snapshot from a webcam via the CLI?
I'm having trouble streaming a webcam from a Raspberry Pi because of its limited resources. So I'm looking at ways of ...
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Taking Snapshot of running VM in VMWare
I am not able to see the "Take a snapshot of this virtual machine" enabled while the VM is running and active. It is found enabled only if the VM is powered off and not even when it is paused. I am ...
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Should I be using snapshots or clones for my purposes?
I have a VirtualBox machine representing a "clean" install of my OS. I would like to use this VM for several types of machines - one for simple games, one for programming, one for my audio editing. ...
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VM Player Snap Shot Functionality
I currently have VM Player installed (version 5.0.1) and I know this does NOT have the snapshot functionality.
Does anyone know how to take snapshots with VM Player. I can not install the version ...
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Cannot open all .SNP snapshot files on Windows 7 x64
We receive .snp snapshot files from legacy MS Access databases out in the field. Our new Windows 7 x64 machines are running Office 2003 and the Snapshot Viewer (SNAPVIEW.EXE), however the vast ...
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Is it possible to open someone's Xcode snapshot in my Xcode?
My boss sent me a Xcode Snapshot of the project that he is working on, but I don't know how to open it and I am not sure if it's possible to open it. Can someone teach me?
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VirtualBox - can I clone a snapshot?
I have a VirtualBox VM machine and I took a few snapshots.
VirtualBox works on a Window7 x64 and plays a Window7 x64 system as well.
Now I would like to clone the very first snapshot but I would ...
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How add USB device to a VirtualBox snapshot?
I need to repair 1TB HDD I was restoring it sector by sector with the Disk Genius from thr Hirens iso file ( ofcourse in VM ) for about 24 hours.
Than I need to turn off the notebook so, I paused the ...
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Creating disk snapshots in Windows 7
Does anyone know of a command or tool to create disk snapshots on Windows 7 (client SKU)?
I see vssadmin.exe has a "create shadow" option, but that's available only on server SKUs: ...
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Free Windows equivalent to .snapshot directory (from Linux)?
I'm sure there's demand for the simplicity of .snapshot-style recovery in Windows (of arbitrary directories, not just the registry). Is there any free software that does this? Or even paid? How about ...
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Windows app to grab webcam snapshots?
I want to periodically capture an image from a webcam attached to a Windows PC, and upload it to a Linux server on the network (preferably FTP, could be SFTP or even Samba).
The images have to be ...
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Deleting Snapshots from LinkedClone Corrupts other LinkedClones
I am currently having a problem in which I have 3 LinkedClones created from the same parent snapshot.
The tasks I do consists of creating a lot of snapshots per virtual machine, therefore having the ...
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Why does rsnapshot not back up /var/lib/mysql/*?
In rsnapshot's config file I added /var/lib/mysql/ as another source directory to back up.
But rsnapshot does not back it up. Why?
/var/log/rsnapshot does not list a relevant warning.
The owner of ...
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How to prevent directory contents from changing while doing a backup?
I have a web-application that stores data into a MySQL database and on the filesystem. Some of the database records reference some of the files on the filesystem.
Now I want to create a snapshot of ...
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How to create snapshots of your server for backup in Cent OS 5
I'm making the move from VPS to Dedicate server. Unfortunately, most dedicated servers do not provide server backups like managed VPS's do and I really like the piece of mind of having a backup of all ...
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Link to snapshot from TV-IP110WN
I have a Trendnet TV-IP110WN camera on my local network. I'd like to embed a link to a current snapshot from this camera on a web page.
I can't seem to find any information on how to get a snapshot ...
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Using Linux LVM snapshots for system backups - “semop failed for cookie” error
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04, with the / partition in an encrypted LVM volume. /home is in the same logical volume. I'm trying to use the LVM snapshot functionality to enable time-consistent backups of ...
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Could not find an open hard disk with UUID {…} on VirtualBox 4.1.2
Guest: Ubuntu
Guest VM Name: WordpressThemeDevBox
Host: Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate
VirtualBox Version: 4.1.2 r73507
I shut off my guest and removed the Current State snapshot using the Restore ...
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What Algorithm does Vmware use for their snapshots? [closed]
Does Vmware Vsphere4.1 use the Chandy-Lamport Algorithm to store their snapshots?
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Parallels “Creating Snapshot” hangup
I am using Windows paralles with my mac and I began "creating snapshot" in my VM. But the process won't stop. Now if I startup the VM, I cannot quit parallels and also can't shutdown my computer ...
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Automatically create snapshot before launching VirtualBox VM?
Does anyone have a script or know how to write one to automatically take a snapshot of a VM before launching it for use?
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Taking snapshot of entire OS
I was wondering if anyone knew of free software to take an OS snapshot.
Something that would also compare and list the differences between the two different snapshots.
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VirtualBox machine with two disks - How to create/restore snapshots for only one?
I have a Linux virtual machine with two disks, one is mounted as / and the other one as /home. I'd like to take a snapshot of / but not of /home so that I can later come back to a clean system and ...
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When does a VirtualBox snapshot actually happen
I spend a lot of my job writing documentation for the installation of software on my employer's servers. Sometimes this is quite complicated, so I do the initial work inside a virtual machine running ...
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VirtualBox: How to restore a deleted configuration file?
Somehow a lot of things went wrong with VirtualBox. The configuration-file (which is an xml-file) was cleared, because there was most probably no space left on the disk.
The harddisk file was lost in ...
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How to prevent VirtualBox VM crashing into “Aborted” when resuming it from a snapshot with running OpenGL application inside?
When I try snapshot/restore-state in VirtualBox 4.0.4, it works.
Hovewer, if I try restoring snapshot when some OpenGL-enabled application is running inside VM, VM crashes immediately after starting.
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NTFS “Restore previous versions”
My harrowing experience over the past 24 hours:
Windows 7 installation hosed after bluetooth driver install.
Attempting to recover using restore points via "Repair" on the bootable Windows 7 ...
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Do virtualisation snapshots confuse Windows Activation
I have a Vista guest running inside VirtualBox on an Ubuntu host.
Suppose I take a snapshot, apply a patch, and then run the snapshot again (effectively the same as reverting the patch) am I likely ...
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How to make a redundant desktop system with daily snapshots? (Is btrfs ready for use?)
I want to configure a desktop system in which the home filesystem would be redundant (e.g. RAID-1), and would have weekly snapshots taken. I've already done this with ZFS, the snapshot system is ...
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virtualbox snapshot size
I've started using Windows 7 under VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 10.10 host. I took about 6 snapshots over the course of setting up the VM from the Windows restore image that came with the computer. My ...
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Is there a Snipping tool for WIndows XP
Is there a tool available for Windows XP which is similar to the Snipping Tool for Windows 7?
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Virtualbox errors and missing snapshots
I really hope someone can help me here as otherwise I've lost a lot of files :( I thought I'd move my VDI to my SSD drive to gain better performance. Now it seems to have reverted to it's original ...
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Drive images backup in Linux
I have a linux server, and i want to make an image of the whole drive in real-time, like acronis does.
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Taking snapshots of filesystem/volume in Windows 7?
I'm developing an Windows 7 image for deploying onto a bunch of computers.
As I install the software, I like to take a snapshot from time to time in case one piece of software makes a mess of things.
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Sharing VirtualBox snapshots
Is it possible to "share" a VirtualBox snapshot? I have a "baseline" VirtualBox machine, and I would like to be able to take a snapshot, and send it to another user which has the same baseline ...
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where does xenserver keep vm snapshots?
I'm ssh'd into the xenserver and trying to locate the snapshots using "find /scripts | grep -i string" where string is what I called the snapshot when I took it in xencenter. This method doesn't work, ...
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Auto deleting files when Windows restarts
I remember Norton having an addon that lets say I do a clean reinstall of Windows and set that starting point - and no matter what I install, once I restart all the newly addons are gone and the os ...
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Create system snapshot to use applications that are not installed
Sorry if the title doesn't really give an overview of what this is.
I need an application that can do a system snapshot.
Here's the story. I have deepfreeze installed right now. And its activated.
If ...
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virtual machine snapshot vs windows system restore
I have a VM of windows 7 using VMware Fusion. I would like to use it to test software (betas etc) and want to be able to roll back after trialing.
What is better; using VM snapshots, or using the ...
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Virtualbox, merging snapshots and base disk
I have a virtual machine with about 30 snapshots in branches. The current development path is 22 snapshots plus the base disk. The amount of files is seemingly having an impact now on IO and the dev ...
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SVS app virtualization for Mac OS X?
Is there something similar to Altiris (now Symatec) Software Virtualization Suite for Mac OS X?
Or just a possibility to "revert" all changes a app/installer made to the filesystem?
Thanks
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Is there a way to snapshot a running process to disk to restore it later?
I usually work with a lot of instances of visual studio open to different projects, I was wondering if there is a way to snapshot/hibernate a running process to disk instead of closing it so that I ...
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How do I change the snapshots directory in VirtualBox on Windows?
I have a SSD Hard drive representing C:\, which is only 30GB.
Therefore, I install all my (non-critical) apps on my large G:\ drive. My VirtualBox installation is on G:\, as well as the hard ...
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How to copy only VM changes in VMware to another physical machine
How can I use VMware Workstation to copy only changes to a VM to another physical machine, rather than recopying the entire VM every time? Can I just copy the snapshot files, if the second physical ...
