Re: [Xen-users] can I clone a runiung domU?

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

> > I'd like to know if it's possible to clone a running domU. 
> > The LVM image is 30GB. I can't really afford to have the
> > running one off line that long, so if possible I'd like todo it while
> > it's running.
> >     
> dd almost certainly won't give you a usable filesystem in your copy.
>
> Using LVM you should be able to make a snapshot of the filesystem which
> should be at least as consistent (integrity wise) as if you'd done an
> 'xm destroy' on the domain.
>
>   
A neat way to do that is if you use zfs-backed storage, either directly 
(using Sun's xVM) or having solaris export the volume over iscsi to 
linux box. The "clone" process for zfs is two simple commands : "zfs 
snanpshot" and "zfs clone", which is almost instaneous.
Regards,

Fajar

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