Snapshotting VirtualBox

• Vagrant built in snapshotting (estimated time: <10 minute)

  • use vagrant snapshot save RDFS_VM <snapshot-name> to take a shapshot
    • replace <snapshot-name> with whatever you want.
    • If you get a message saying The machine with the name 'RDFS_VM' was not found configured for this Vagrant environment., then run vagrant status to get a list of your running machines. Replace RDFS_VM with the name of the machine you are trying to snapshot, and try it again.
  • vagrant snapshot restore RDFS_VM <snapshot-name> to restore the most recent snapshot
  • more commands

• Rebuilding the local disk (estimated time: 1 minute)

  • Shut down the VM by using vagrant halt
  • In the VirtualBox GUI, click on File->Virtual Media Manager
  • Click on raw_storage.vdi, then hit the Release button followed by the Remove button
  • Run vagrant up to restart the virtual machine, which will automatically rebuild the raw storage from scratch.