Re: [Xen-users] Backup in a Xen

[Albert Hopkins <xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 22:24 +0200, David Shwatrz wrote:
> Hello, 
>  Does anyone has an experience and can recommecnd about backup
> techniques and backup agents inside  Xen domains  ?
> 

Assuming this is for Linux/Unix.  I still use amanda (haven't jumped on
the Bacula bandwagon yet, but I've heard many great things).  Most of my
domU's have the amanda client installed, and I have daily and monthly
D2D backups jobs with them to an eSATA drive.  The amanda server is also
a domU. A couple of domU's are in a DMZ network, so I don't have amanda
agents on them.  The way I back those up is, using a script, I make LVM
snapshots of the DMZ domU's from the dom0, then block-attach the
snapshots to the backup server, from there the backup server mounts
backs up the snapshots as it would a local disk.  The snapshots are then
unmounted, block-detached, and discarded.  I also backup my physical
machines from the same backup server and it's been running well for a
while now.  Restores work as they would on any other amanda client.

--
Albert W. Hopkins


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