Re: [Xen-users] Using dd and gzip to backup LVM backed domUs

["Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Agent Rooker <agentrooker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with the best way to backup my xen domUs.  I
> have a logical volume containing an ext3 root filesystem for each
> domU.  Basically, I want to back up the whole filesystem in such a way
> that I could restore the image on another xen server in the case of
> hardware failure.   My idea so far is to back up the logical volume
> with a command of this form (from the dom0):

as always, it's much better to do a backup from the DomU itself.

-- 
Javier

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