Re: [Xen-users] Backup running Windows machines - redundancy

[Mike Sun <msun@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I did some tests on different tools like ntfsclone, partimage and dd through 
> gzip.
> In combination with LVM Snapshots they produce a backup which should preserve 
> all meta data since these
> methods are not filebased.
> One of the disadvantages are, these are not increment backup solutions, so 
> you will have multiple big archive
> files.

What if you used file-backed sparse images as the VM's virtual disk
and then used rsync/rdiff-backup on that file itself?  That way, you
don't have to worry about rsync/rdiff-backup being aware of NTFS
metadata, but still take advantage of the incremental binary diffs
that rsync/rdiff-backup provide at the file level.

Is that a feasible solution?

Mike

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