[Fedora-xen] Best Practice for backing up running Virtual Machines

[Lamont R. Peterson]

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 03:59pm, Christian Reiter wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am wondering what's the best way to backup a running xen-domU.
>
> I've just tried to simply copy the file of a file-backed domU while it
> was running.
> Surprisingly that  was succesful, i didn't even get a filesystem error....

That doesn't surprise me.

>  But i think that is not a reliable way for production servers.

I think you are right about that :) .

> What would you recommend to get reliable disaster recovery backups
> of file-backed as well as partition-backed (raw partition or lvm
> volumes) vms?

I would use LVM to provide the storage and then take a snapshot ("lvcreate 
-s") in dom0 and back that up.
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Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
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