[lxc-users] snapshot listing

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Tamas Papp (tompos at martos.bme.hu):
> 
> 
> On 03/17/2016 04:02 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> >Quoting Tamas Papp (tompos at martos.bme.hu):
> >>
> >>On 03/17/2016 12:09 AM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> >>>Quoting Tamas Papp (tompos at martos.bme.hu):
> >>>>hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>I remember, that not very long time ago the 'lxc list' command also
> >>>>listed snapshots too.
> >>>>But now it doesn't. How can I do that now?
> >>>>
> >>>You can see the number of snapshots with
> >>>
> >>>lxc list -c nS
> >>>+------+-----------+
> >>>| NAME | SNAPSHOTS |
> >>>+------+-----------+
> >>>| x1   | 1         |
> >>>+------+-----------+
> >>>
> >>>then see the actual snapshots with
> >>>
> >>>lxc info x1
> >>>Name: x1
> >>>Architecture: x86_64
> >>>Created: 2016/03/14 22:16 UTC
> >>>Status: Stopped
> >>>Type: persistent
> >>>Profiles: default
> >>>Snapshots:
> >>>   x1/snap0 (taken at 2016/03/16 23:07 UTC) (stateless)
> >>>
> >>Shh....I should have though on that:)
> >>
> >>
> >>But:
> >>
> >>Snapshots:
> >>   zas_2016-03-08 (taken at 2016/03/08 09:22 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-09 (taken at 2016/03/09 03:32 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-10 (taken at 2016/03/10 03:30 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-11 (taken at 2016/03/11 03:32 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-12 (taken at 2016/03/12 03:32 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-13 (taken at 2016/03/13 03:32 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-14 (taken at 2016/03/14 03:32 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-15 (taken at 2016/03/15 03:32 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-16 (taken at 2016/03/16 03:32 UTC) (stateless)
> >>   zas_2016-03-17 (taken at 2016/03/17 00:55 UTC) (stateful)
> >>   zas_2016-03-17a (taken at 2016/03/17 00:56 UTC) (stateful)
> >>   zas_2016-03-17b (taken at 2016/03/17 00:56 UTC) (stateful)
> >>   zas_2016-03-17c (taken at 2016/03/17 01:03 UTC) (stateful)
> >>   zas_2016-03-17d (taken at 2016/03/17 01:05 UTC) (stateful)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>It's marked as stateful, but checkpoint was failing due to old criu version:
> >>
> >>
> >>$ lxc snapshot --stateful connect
> >>error: checkpoint failed
> >>
> >>
> >>It's a bug, right?
> >Sounds like a bug.
> >
> 
> https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1768
> 
> 
> I have a slightly related question.
> Do you plan to have a more computer friendly list of snapshots?
> It would be great to see them listed as containers, like defining,
> what detail(s) I want to see and list only snapshots, greppable etc.

It's not planned.  Can you open an issue requesting it?  Seems like
something which must be scriptable and the only way I can think of
right now is to use the rest api to get the list of snapshot urls.