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Re: [Xen-users] Best practice to backup dom0 and all domU's

To: Andris <andris@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Best practice to backup dom0 and all domU's
From: Tiago Cruz <tiagocruz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:15:06 -0300
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Hello Andris

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 14:20 +0200, Andris wrote:

> I have Dom0 with md (software mirror) and lvm on top.
> Nightly I make lvm snapshot for each DomU (make sure that it is large
> enough not to overfill while doing backup).

Did you get the snapshot with domU running?


> Then I export those lvm snapshots to dedicated backup DomU which boots
> on and after backup job shuts down itself.
> Then remove snapshots.

Sounds like graceful! Can you show your script for us, please?

Thanks
> 
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Tiago Cruz
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