Backing up your VM
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It is often a good idea to backup your VM. The two main VM flavors persistent (p) and compute (c) have different behaviors and backups should be considered differently for each.
Persistent VMs
Persistent VMs are designed to boot from volumes (see OpenStack#Booting_from_a_Volume) and as such to back a persistent VM a copy can be created of the volume(s) the VM has attached to it.
Go to the 'Volumes' tab, and from the drop down menue for the volume you wish to create an image of select 'Upload Volume to Images'. Select the 'QCOW2' Disk format and give your volume image a name.
Compute VMs
- Volumes versus ephemeral drives?
- OpenStack Command Line Clients
- OpenStack#Creating_an_Image_from_a_VM
- OpenStack#Downloading_an_Image
- OpenStack#Uploading_an_Image