Submitted by bnemec on Tue, 02/24/2015 - 16:33
I've discussed my local OpenStack installation before, such as here and here. One of the results of the changes I've made to it over time is that I have some instances that are booted from volume. Unfortunately, instances booted from volume don't snapshot properly with the nova image-create. Below is the quick and dirty method I've been using to take snapshot backups of those vms for a while now.
