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Re: [Xen-users] Xen, LVM and snapshots


  • To: "Morten W. Petersen" <morten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Ciro Iriarte" <cyruspy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:57:13 -0400
  • Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx>
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2008/10/14 Morten W. Petersen <morten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Well, what I was thinking, was to do a sync on the VM, and flush the
> MySQL database and then immediately afterwards, taking a snapshot of the
> system, backup that snapshot and then after backup "releasing"
> (deleting) the snapshot.
>
> We're stuck with .18 for now, as that's what Debian comes with and we
> try to stick with off-the-shelf packages.
>
> Do you think that's feasible?
>
> - -Morten

If all you want is the Mysql data files, In our case, we stop mysql,
create the snapshot and start it again...All this within the domU
(mysql is in a separate volume)...

Regards,
Ciro

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