Hi, I don't think I will be using the LVM snapshot method. I will simply ensure that my domU is not running, then I proceed to do the losetup and kpartx procedure. Subsequently I will backup the MBR of my domU by dd-ing /dev/loopX and clone all the filesystems of the domU using fsarchiver. I would like to use fsarchiver because it can support LZMA compression. LZMA can compress better than bzip2 and decompress 3x faster than bzip2. partimage only supports gzip and bzip2. -- Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical Engineering) Alma Maters: (1) Singapore Polytechnic (2) National University of Singapore My Primary Blog: <a href="http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com">http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com</a> My Secondary Blog: <a href="http://enmingteo.wordpress.com">http://enmingteo.wordpress.com</a> My Youtube videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo">http://www.youtube.com/user/enmingteo</a> Email: <a href="mailto:space.time.universe@gmail.com">space.time.universe@gmail.com</a> Mobile Phone (Starhub Prepaid): +65-8369-2618 Street: Bedok Reservoir Road Country: Singapore <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <<a href="mailto:fajar@fajar.net">fajar@fajar.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) <<a href="mailto:space.time.universe@gmail.com">space.time.universe@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Now I can proceed with writing the > backup and restore script for my Fedora 11 Dom0 (all partitions using LVM2 > logical volumes) and all of my Xen virtual machines (contained in logical > volumes). </div>A reminder though: don't forget to create a "consistent", unchanging version of domU storage before doing backup. Either by shutting down domU, or by creating LVM snapshot first. Also, if it comes to Windows domUs, I find ntfsclone is better than fsarchiver. One of the reasons is that fsarchiver can not create compressed files during restore. -- Fajar </blockquote></div>