tilaa-sc

tilaa snapshot control

Defaults can be set in line 109 and 110. Then you can simply do

• tilaa-sc -status 1 - for snapshot overview
• tilaa-sc -id 1234 - for create a snapshot with default name
• tilaa-sc -id 1234 -name "hello world" - create snapshot with given name
• tilaa-sc -delete 123 - delete snapshot id 123

If you set default id in line 111 too, execute tilaa-sc is enough for creating (and overwriting) a new snapshot.

Parameters

-u api@user.tld
-p password
-id 1234 # tilaa server id while creating
-n "snapshot backup name" # default "backup"
-o <0|1> # overwrite existing snapshot. default 1
-l <0|1> # online (live) snapshotting. default 1
-s|status <0|1> # list snapshot overview
-debug <0|1> # list all parameters
-delete 123 # snapshot id, NOT! server id! get snapshot id with -status 1

EXAMPLE
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## STATUS
tilaa-sc -u api@user -p pwd1 -status 1

Tilaa snapshot overview

"status":"ERROR"
"message":"Not Found"

## CREATE (while creating, ID is the ID of your SERVER!!
tilaa-sc -u api@user -p pwd1 -id 1234 # default parameter for -l -o -n.

"status":"OK"
"message":"The virtual machine snapshot is being created"

## STATUS
tilaa-sc -u api@user -p pwd1 -status 1 # notice: status => start

Tilaa snapshot overview

"status":"OK"
"snapshots":"id":36,"name":"backup"
"ram":0,"storage":30,"template":"id":313,"name":"ArchLinux 2012.12.01, 64 bit"
"status":"start"
"created":"2014-06-07T17:46:03+02:00"

## STATUS
tilaa-sc -u api@user -p pwd1 -status 1

"status":"OK"
"snapshots":"id":36,"name":"backup"
"ram":0,"storage":30,"template":"id":313,"name":"ArchLinux 2012.12.01, 64 bit"
"status":"success"
"created":"2014-06-07T17:46:03+02:00"

## DELETE
tilaa-sc -u api@user -p pwd1 -delete 36 # delete snapshot id 36. see -status 1 for snapshot id!!

"status":"OK"
"message":"The virtual machine snapshot has been deleted"