[Xen-users] Imaging complete Xen installs

[Paul Stimpson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm helping to create an appliance which consists of an Ubuntu host, a 
number of Ubuntu guests and a Windows server guest. We've been using 
Clonezilla to image the machine but it is performing badly in terms of 
image size and restore times.
The filesystem on the boot drive is an LVM 2 container containing 
multiple ext3/4 and an NTFS FS. We want to do a full disk image 
including the boot sector and partition table. When we do a "savedisk", 
Clonezilla is complaining that it can't intelligently backup any of the 
ext or NTFS volumes because they're within an LVM container so it's just 
doing a dd and then gzipping it. We've tried zerofree and this does make 
things better but it's nowhere near as good as a real intelligent 
backup. Clonezilla makes it sound like LVM isn't supported but the first 
thing it says when you start the backup is that it's unmounting the LVM 
volumes.
Can anyone please recommend a better backup program that is preferably 
free software or a better way of using Clonezilla so I can get the 
backup down to a more manageable size?
Thanks,
Paul.



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