On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM Sascha Lucas via ceph-users
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ilya,
>
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2026, Ilya Dryomov via ceph-users wrote:
>
> > To see the image-level snapshots that comprise a group snapshot taken
> > with "rbd group snap create", run "rbd snap ls --all".
> >
> > There is no support for cloning from a group snapshot directly but
> > cloning from the corresponding image-level snapshots is possible with
> > "rbd clone <image name> --snap-id <snap id>" syntax (instead of the
> > usual "rbd clone <image name>@<snap name>").  As a workaround one can
> > do that for each member image and then create a new group out of the
> > resulting clone images.  The new "clone" group wouldn't get linked to
> > the original "parent" group like clone images get linked to their
> > parent images though.
>
> Thanks for this valuable information. I was able to clone each individual
> image from the group snapshot. Also found this IBM documentation[1].
>
> > Unfortunately there is no support for exporting a group snapshot
> > directly (you already saw the unfinished PR) and even being able to
> > export the corresponding image-level snapshots individually is pending
> > on https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/72410.  As a workaround one can
> > clone from an image-level snapshot and then export the clone image.
>
> Also confirming that exporting the cloned images works well. But with this
> workaround there seems no chance for export-diff between two group
> snapshots?

Correct -- https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/72410 is needed for that.

Thanks,

                Ilya
_______________________________________________
ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]

Reply via email to