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lvthunder
Joined: 27 Jan 2010
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Location: Las Vegas, NV
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| How does the restore work with the size. When I set up my Linode I made a 256MB Swap and the rest Ubuntu. Now that I have done a restore it is showing my Ubuntu Image only 1522MB and it's saying I have 14606MB free. Shouldn't the restored image be the same size as before? |
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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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Location: Galloway, NJ
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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lvthunder wrote: Shouldn't the restored image be the same size as before?
No? It restores the image as small as the data within the filesystem. You can resize your disk image after you restore to whatever size you wish.
Doing it this way allows one to restore a backup from a much larger Linode to a smaller Linode.
-Chris |
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lvthunder
Joined: 27 Jan 2010
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Location: Las Vegas, NV
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| In my opinion it should say that somewhere. That way people know what it's doing. |
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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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Location: Galloway, NJ
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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lvthunder wrote: In my opinion it should say that somewhere. That way people know what it's doing.
What other way is there to interpret it? It tells you the total size required on the restore page...
-Chris |
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hybinet
Joined: 02 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I think you should add a little bit of safe margin by default. An unsuspecting user could boot up the restored image and run out of disk space as soon as a log file is written to. |
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caker
Joined: 15 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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hybinet wrote: I think you should add a little bit of safe margin by default. An unsuspecting user could boot up the restored image and run out of disk space as soon as a log file is written to.
We do already. :)
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