Re: [Xen-users] XEN infrastructure setup question

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Christian Motschke
<christian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 3) How do I backup VMs (snapshots?)
>>
>> install backup clients on the VMs
>
> Or you can make a snapshot, check the filesystem of the snapshot, mount the 
> snapshot and use a backup tool or dd the snapshot to another disk. You can 
> find backup scripts for this.
> http://www.cduce.org/~abate/files/xenBackup.txt

.... and lose any application-level uncommited data.  this method has
the same result (except for downtime) as pulling the plug of a live
server and copying the hard disk.

-- 
Javier

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