Re: [Xen-users] About tape drive.

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Williamson wrote:
> > If you're going that route, I recommend "rsnapshot" or plain old
> > "rsync". If you're clever, you can do it to the LVM snapshot and speed
> > the heck out of the process, because most of the files are already there!
> >     
> Ah!  So snapshot the guest, then update the snapshot every so often with an 
> rsync from the guest?.
>   
Use the LVM snapshot to creatae a local filesystem snapshot on Dom0. 
This can be done via rsnapshot cleanly, and incremental rsync based 
snapshots can be done regularly to a related rsnapshot repository.
> Whilst we're on the subject my personal favourite backup system is 
> rdiff-backup, which provides compressed, diff-based backups of a filesystem - 
> either locally, or over SSH - and provides "time-travel" capabilities for 
> getting old versions of files.
>   
I find rsnapshot friendly. rsync.net is providing commercial support for it.

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