Re: [Xen-users] Backup domU

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Allison wrote:

> > The backup is also on the same disks as the live system.
> I don't know why you make this point, as, at least in this thread, 
> the target of the backup is not mentioned and is trivial to have it 
> point to another system.
I wasn't aware LVM could create a snapshot which puts a complete copy 
of the volume on another disk. In fact, AUIU, a snapshot doesn't 
actually copy the whole volume, it creates a COW setup which saves 
any blocks subsequently written to.
If I'm wrong then I'm happy to be corrected.

> A perfect tool for this is backuppc. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Like I say, there are **many** tools for the job. But thanks for the 
pointer, I'll take a look at that sometime and see if it's better 
than what I use now.
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