Re: [Users] Basic questions about ploop snapshotting

2014-10-18 Thread Roman Haefeli
Hey Scott Sorry, I accidentally used the address of my son as sender, but it was still me writing the mail. On Sam, 2014-10-18 at 13:53 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Martin, > > - Original Message - > > I'm not quite following all of your statements. Specifically, I don't > > see why you

Re: [Users] Basic questions about ploop snapshotting

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Dowdle
Martin, - Original Message - > I'm not quite following all of your statements. Specifically, I don't > see why you think you need a base AND a first snapshot. One snapshot is > sufficient for later restoring. Also, I don't think you need to > understand the underlying architecture in order

Re: [Users] Basic questions about ploop snapshotting

2014-10-18 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Don, 2014-10-16 at 16:38 -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote: > Greetings, > > - Original Message - > > I think I'm having some brainfart moment on how snapshots really > > function. > > Ok, I played with it... and I *THINK* I understand it now. > > Your first snapshot is like a base... and yo

Re: [Users] Basic questions about ploop snapshotting

2014-10-18 Thread Roman Haefeli
Hi Scott Without having fully read your second mail I think you want something like this: * You have CT with Zimbra 8.0.6 installed and you want to upgrade t 8.0.8 * You create a snapshot like this: $ vzctl snapshot CTID --name pre-upgrade-808 * You perform the upgrade and it goes havoc and y