Re: [Xen-users] How to make a copy (backup) of domU

[James Gallagher <james.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Aug 2006, at 6:04 PM, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 10:53, FB wrote:
> > You can do it your way - but you've got to shutdown the domu before
> > backing it up. If your root partition is an XFS-filesystem, you might
> > be able to dump a running domu-filesystem-image after calling  
> > xfs_freeze
> > (inside the domu). However, I wouldn't recommend using XFS as root
> > filesystem.
> >
> > The other option is to use some kind of network backup client in  
> > your domu
> > or tar/cpio/dump all necessary partitions somewhere.
> >
> > I just tar all my domu's root-partitions into a network filesystem
> > directory.
> I use LVM, and a script running in dom0 I knocked up to create  
> snapshots of
> each running domU in turn, then rdiff-backup to send the data off  
> somewhere
> else.
Hi Mike,

I'd read about problems with LVM snapshots on earlier 2.6 kernels and  
didn't immediately turn up anything that indicated it had been  
resolved. Any issues to watch out for or has it all been relatively  
plain sailing for you?
James




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