@@ -1287,11 +1287,18 @@ is running, the global setting 'kvm.snapshot.enabled' must be set to 'True'.
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12881288The Volume Snapshot creation has changed in recent versions:
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1290- Under the hood, first, a full Instance Snapshot is taken - this means that during the taking of
1291- the Instance Snapshot the Instance will be in the " Paused" state (while RAM memory is being written to the
1292- QCOW2 file), which means that Instance will be unavailable from the Network point of view.
1293- When the Instance Snapshot is created, Instance is unpaused/resumed, the single Volume Snapshot is exported
1294- to the Secondary Storage, and then the Instance Snapshots is removed from the Instance.
1290+ When the VM is running, a disk-only VM snapshot is taken, exclusively for the volume in question.
1291+ If the VM is stopped, the volume will be converted (with qemu-img convert). The final storage location is
1292+ determined by the ` ` snapshot.backup.to.secondary` ` configuration; if it is false the snapshot will be copied
1293+ to a different directory in the same primary storage as the volume; if it is true the snapshot will be copied
1294+ to the secondary storage. If the snapshot is being taken in a file-based storage (NFS, SharedMountPoint, Local),
1295+ it will be copied directly to its final storage location, according to the configuration.
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1297+ Since 4.20.0.0, ACS supports incremental snapshots for the KVM hypervisor when using file-based storage (NFS, SharedMountPoint, Local),
1298+ to enable incremental snapshots the ` ` kvm.incremental.snapshot` ` configuration must be enabled. Furthermore, in order to take incremental snapshots
1299+ the KVM host must have at least Libvirt version 7.6.0+ and qemu version 6.1+. The size of the snapshot chains
1300+ will be determined by the ` ` snapshot.delta.max` ` configuration, which affects both KVM and XenServer snapshots.
1301+ More information on the incremental snapshot feature for KVM can be found in its ` specification < https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/8907> ` _.
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12971304Automatic Snapshot Creation and Retention
@@ -1333,7 +1340,7 @@ incremental backups are supported, every N backup is a full backup.
13331340+------------------------------+------------------+------------------+-----+
13341341| | VMware vSphere | Citrix XenServer | KVM |
13351342+==============================+==================+==================+=====+
1336- | Support incremental backup | No | Yes | No |
1343+ | Support incremental backup | No | Yes | Yes |
13371344+------------------------------+------------------+------------------+-----+
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13391346 .. note::
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