Re: [Xen-users] Backup solution

["Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Xin Chen wrote:
> but LVM snapshot still has risk, must be survived from a  power failture.
> correct me if i am wrong...
> what I do now is shutdown, copy, start....
>

Correct.
However, for production system, you'd generally design a system that
MUST be able to survive a power failure/hard reboot anyway. This means
activating archive log (for Oracle), using Innodb (MySQL), using
journaling filesystem, etc. So this shouldn't be an issue.

Reading Jordi's post I assume his priority was how to keep the VM during
backups, so LVM snapshot should be a feasible solution.

Regards,

Fajar

> Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>
>> Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are planning to use XEN VPS in production environment. Before it we
>>> need to design a realiable backup policy for obvious reasons. I view
>>> two approaches:
>>>
>>> a) Use a "snapshot" system for backup ALL VM file (image).
>>> b) Use a traditional backup system (rsync, tar, cpio) for backup
>>> SELECTED data into VM.
>>>
>>> I prefer A option but I've read in this list it is not possible unless
>>> you stop de VM during a few time (the time required for backup
>>> operation itself).
>>>   
>>
>> If your vm image are files, and use LVM snapshot, you don't need to STOP
>> the VM for backup.
>> This thread might help you :
>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2007-06/msg00688.html
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Fajar


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