Re: [Xen-users] snapshots (without lvm)

[Kyle Lexmond <kyl191@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This isn't too helpful, but regarding (ii), dd
if=/path/to/domU/partition/or/disk.img
of=/path/to/drive/with/enough/space/to/store/a/copy.img bs=8M or the
like should do the trick for your disk, and just make a copy of your
domU config file.

There's also xm snapshot-create, but I'm not too sure how well (or
even how) that works.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Adam Gold <adamgold@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm using xen 4.1.2 on fedora 16. I'm aware that it's possible to snapshot
> vms using lvm snapshots but it's a lengthier and more involved process than
> the type of one step snapshot functionality included in citrix xenserver or
> xcp. Therefore I wanted to ask:
>
> (i) does anyone know if it's possible to create snapshots using the libvirt
> library e.g. virsh snapshot-create. I don't believe it is but I wanted to
> check. When I try I get an error message saying: "error: this function is
> not supported by the connection driver: virDomainSnapshotCreateXML"
> (ii) putting lvm aside, are there any other snapshot options available for
> xen if one isn't using xcp
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
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