Re: [Xen-users] restoring files to guest domains

[Jared <list-xen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/06/2008 02:37 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> Don't run the "mount". Use "xm" to export that LVM snapshot to the guest 
> domain, and mount it *inside* the guest domain. Then unmount, unexport 
> it, and flush the snapshot.
This sounds like an interesting approach.  I'll have to look into it 
tonight and see if I can make it work.  Thanks for the suggestion.
> Alternatively, you can completely shut down the guest and mount both 
> partitions and copy things to the old guest partition, but I don't think 
> you want to do that.
Not at all.  :-)

> By the way, why are you using partition based LVM images, rather than 
> disk based LVM images?
No, they are disk-based.  I'm just used to describing these things in 
terms of partitions.  This is my first experience with LVM (obviously), 
so I just haven't adjusted to the new terminology yet.
--
Jared

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