Re: [Xen-users] How to make a copy (backup) of domU

[Mike Williams <mike.williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 10:53, FB wrote:
> You can do it your way - but you've got to shutdown the domu before
> backing it up. If your root partition is an XFS-filesystem, you might
> be able to dump a running domu-filesystem-image after calling xfs_freeze
> (inside the domu). However, I wouldn't recommend using XFS as root
> filesystem.
>
> The other option is to use some kind of network backup client in your domu
> or tar/cpio/dump all necessary partitions somewhere.
>
> I just tar all my domu's root-partitions into a network filesystem
> directory.

I use LVM, and a script running in dom0 I knocked up to create snapshots of 
each running domU in turn, then rdiff-backup to send the data off somewhere 
else.

-- 
Mike Williams

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