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

[Ben]

FWIW, I've tried Amanda, and really hated it. It seems to be mature and well 
done, but I was simply unable to contort my mind to think like the Amanda 
developers seem to. As far as I could tell, Bacula is just as powerful and a lot 
more understandable. At least, that's how it struck me.

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Lamont R. Peterson wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 12:06pm, Ignacio Verona wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply Lamont,
>>
>> unfortunately, there is no easy way I can migrate to LVM my virtual
>> machines, as it's a production server, with no spare partitions right
>> now. Which kind of backup software are you referring to? We have been
>> using backup PC for a while, and are pretty happy with that piece of
>> software. Will it make the work?
>
> (Please, reply to the whole list.  Thanks :) ).
>
> I haven't used backup PC, so I can not comment on it.
>
> I was thinking of Amanda (for an open source choice) or TapeWare (looks like
> they changed to name to Backup Standard) [ http://www.yosemitetech.com/ ] for
> the best commercial backup software I have personally used.
> -- 
> Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
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