Different location for snapshots? Approach to a catastrophic event

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Good morning(EST)!

Is there a way to have snapshots created on/in a different volume? Granted, a catastrophic event may render a snapshot generally useless but I would prefer snapshots to be “elsewhere”.

Along those lines, what approach do people take to prevent complete data loss in the event of a catastrophic event? How and where are y’all storing full backups of your containters?

Thank you!

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No, snapshots are always stored in the same pool as the instance/volume.
This is almost always a hard requirement on the underlying storage pool driver itself.

See https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/docs/master/backup/ for approaches to backing up instances and snapshots though.

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@tomp:
Thank you!

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