I think you are right, and copy /var/lib/glance/images/xxxxxxxxxxx to remote host is the fastest way. You can check the snapshot by using it create an instance in the new openstack environment. 2013-01-18 Wangpan 发件人：Ajiva Fan 发送时间：2013-01-18 14:08 主题：[Openstack] [glance] how to export snapshot to local file system 收件人："openstack at lists.launchpad.net"<openstack at lists.launchpad.net> 抄送： dear all, i have deployed openstack essex on ubuntu 12.04 precise, there are some instances running for couple of days now the server becomes unstable, so i want to save my instances' snapshot to remote file system in order to use them in a new environment. i find that there is no such command in glance, so what should i do? i guess i can achieve it by following steps: 1. snapshot instance 2. locate the snapshot file in /var/lib/glance/images/xxxxxxxxxxx 3. copy this file to a remote host 4. upload this file by 'glance add' as disk_format=qcow2 to a new openstack environment is it correct? and is there any convenient way? thanks for any help _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130118/ab449398/attachment.html>