Re: [Xen-users] Backup; mount domU FS RO?

[Marcin Owsiany <porridge@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:04:50AM +0100, als@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
[...]
> A better approach is to use LVM and snapshots. Use LVM logical volumes
> as "disks" for your DomU (if you aren't already doing this), create
> snapshots for your backups, mount the snapshots and backup _those_.
[...]
> 
> I'm currently using this to backup our production DomU systems from the
> Dom0 and it works very well.

How do you assure that domU's filesystem is in a consistent state when
the snapshot is being taken in dom0?
Also, which distro+kernel do you use?

Marcin
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