[Fedora-xen] Best Practice for backing up running Virtual Machines
Lamont R. Peterson
lamont at gurulabs.com
Tue May 16 18:01:48 UTC 2006
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.
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Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
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