[lxc-users] Howto save snapshots only to another drive? Bug?

[Oliver Rath]

Hi Fajar,

its "dir":

lxc storage show default | grep driver
driver: dir

Regards,

Oliver


Am 13.01.20 um 03:32 schrieb Fajar A. Nugraha:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:01 AM Oliver Rath <oliver at greenunit.de> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Im using lxd 3.18 on ubuntu 18.04. Now i realized, that my (fast) space
>> of lxc-vms exhausted, so i decided to put mv my snaps to another drive
>> with changing the directory "containers-snapshots" into a softlink
>> redirecting the snapshots to another drive.
>>
>> Unfortunatly on creating a new snapshots got the message
>>
>> cannot create directory
>> "/var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/storage-pools/default/containers-snapshots",
>> file exists.
>>
>> I assume, that the lxc doesnt recognize, that containers-snapshots is a
>> (correct) link to the corresponding files. What can I do?
>
> What is the backing storage of your default lxd storage pool on? If
> unsure, run "lxc storage show default | grep driver".
>
> lxc snapshots uses snapshot feature of the underlying storage (if
> available), so you can't simply trick it with symlinks.
>