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

[Ignacio Verona]

And how do I manage to take snapshots of VM's not based on LVM? I mean, 
I have 3 VM's on my System, on three files under a /xenM directory. Is 
there any easy way I can do backups of the running virtual machines?

Thanks a lot!

Lamont R. Peterson escribió:
> 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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