[Xen-users] Re: FAQ: How to backup for recovery?

[Robin Bowes <robin-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulrich Windl wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2006 at 8:24, Christoph Purrucker wrote:
> 
>> I tar Dom0. Since it has a very small footprint this is the ideal rescue
>> system for me.
>>
> 
> I wasn't really successful with a minimal Dom0 and SLES10:
> # rpm -qa |wc
>     544     544   11988

I had more success with FC5:

# rpm -qa | wc
    172     172    3569

And this includes some stuff I had to install to customise SELinux
policy. I could probably reduce this somewhat by removing the a few
dev/admin tools (gcc, lsof, m4, etc.)

R.


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