see also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Live_Snapshots#Live_backup and http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg00782.html via http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-10-24
On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:23 AM, Rudi Servo <rudise...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't believe that Centoss yet capable of such feature, live backup is > recent and FAIK its available on Fedora 17/18. > To workaround this issue I use DRBD and LVM snapshot. > > This feature is a must have since it's capable to snapshot disk-only (ie. > qcow2), making easier to rsync and copy a entire disk without having the hole > storage allocated or having big lvm's back and forth. > > Hope I helped > > On 11/27/2012 07:45 AM, Andry Michaelidou wrote: >> Hello to you all! >> >> We are implementing here at the University KVM virtualization for our >> servers and services and i was wondering if anyone try to automatically >> backup images. >> I am actually using logical volumes for the VM guests. All virtual clients >> are installed in their LVM logical volume. We are already use IBM TSM for >> backup as we used to when we had physical machines, ie install client in OS >> and manage files and data backup. >> I want to have an image backup additional to files backup, but i want to >> take the image online, without pause or suspend the VM guests. >> Did anyone try to create image backups online? What about >> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Livebackup? >> Can you please advise? >> -- >> Andry Michaelidou Papa | IT Systems Administrator |Department of Computer >> Science | University of Cyprus >> Tel: +357.22.892734 | Fax: +357.22.8927231 | http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-virt mailing list >> CentOS-virt@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
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