Snapshot ability?

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Snapshot ability?

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I always made a snapshot of my vps through SolusVM. I do make backups but I'd like a whole vps backup with settings, users and in the case I recently had to make is move vps(reinstall OS). etc.. there anyway to accomplish this without the use of a control panel?

Also a feature request to add this to the control panel.
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Re: Snapshot ability?

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This isn't possible with the way that we run our Xen VDSes, at least on our end. Inside your OS, you should be able to do this, though.
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Re: Snapshot ability?

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Ok, so I can't find much info on manually snapshots online, but I was able to find this

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lvcreate -s -n  home_snap -L 1G /dev/My-vg/home
Is this correct? Which volume do I create it off of and where do I find it?

Thanks.
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You could try installing the OS from scratch and using logical volumes if you'd like, yes -- that's one way to do it.

I'm not personally well-versed in how to do this, unfortunately.
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