Snapshot Hung Options

[yupthatguy]

I have a cron job that executes

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VBoxManage snapshot Server2 delete "TEST - Daily Snapshot" && VBoxManage snapshot Server2 take "TEST - Daily Snapshot"

It did not execute this morning b/c my host was frozen. There are no other snapshots. The VDI / Snapshot folder are both on the HDD drive which has 100's of gigs available. Prior to deleting the snapshot I booted the vdi to system rescue disk and ran

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e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/vdi-name

. So I am sure the disk is relatively healthy.

It has now been 45 minutes since I ran the snapshot delete / re-create command above.

The command line indicator says that the deletion has reached 90%

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0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%..

What are my options? Should I just let it run for hours and hope something happens?

[yupthatguy]

Wow... I just left it alone... took an hour and 6 minutes to delete one snapshot...

[mpack]

Why are you making daily snapshots? I do hope you are not confusing snapshots with backups. Snapshots are the opposite of backups.

If you want a daily routine that means something, make it copy the VM folder to secondary storage. This will greatly reduce the runtime overhead AND the disk hoggage on the system drive.