[lxc-users] snapshot listing

[Tamas Papp]

On 03/17/2016 07:20 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> 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.
>

https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/1789

Thank you,
tamas