[Fedora-xen] Best Practice for backing up running Virtual Machines

[Lamont R. Peterson]

On Tuesday 16 May 2006 05:30am, Ignacio Verona wrote:
> And how do I manage to take snapshots of VM's not based on LVM? I mean,
> I have 3 VM's on my System, on three files under a /xenM directory. Is
> there any easy way I can do backups of the running virtual machines?

Convert to using LVM; then it'll be easy.

Without converting, use backup software designed to deal with active 
filesystems.  That probably means running the backup software underneath of 
each virtual machine.

LVM is a much better choice.  Not just for backups, but it also makes it 
easier to manage your storage.

> Thanks a lot!

HTH.
-- 
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB  8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/attachments/20060516/7dd91952/attachment.sig>