RE: [Xen-users] what to backup Xen partition with?

["JHJE (Jan Holst Jensen)" <jhje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have 4 x 10GB to backup. Of course, the backup is done 
> while the domains are down.
> The domains are 4 different Linux distributions I make tests on.
[...]
> But it's still too slow (dd+bzip2). Would you know another 
> way to make partition backups?

Hi.

Since these are all Linux distros, AND you are backing up while the
domains are down, I would suggest that you simply mount the partitions
and do a tarball of the file system - or do an rsync of the whole thing
for even better performance.

Cheers
-- Jan Holst Jensen, Denmark

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users