Hello Dor,
One important advantage of live snapshot over live backup is support of
multiple (consecutive) live snapshots while there can be only a single
live backup at one time.
This is why I tend to think that although live backup carry some benefit
(no merge required), the live snapshot + liv
On 05/16/2011 12:38 AM, Jagane Sundar wrote:
Hello Dor,
One important advantage of live snapshot over live backup is support of
multiple (consecutive) live snapshots while there can be only a single
live backup at one time.
This is why I tend to think that although live backup carry some benefi
Hello Dor,
Let me see if I understand live snapshot correctly:
If I want to configure a VM for daily backup, then I would do
the following:
- Create a snapshot s1. s0 is marked read-only.
- Do a full backup of s0 on day 0.
- On day 1, I would create a new snapshot s2, then
copy over the snapsho
On 05/16/2011 11:23 AM, Jagane Sundar wrote:
Hello Dor,
Let me see if I understand live snapshot correctly:
If I want to configure a VM for daily backup, then I would do
the following:
- Create a snapshot s1. s0 is marked read-only.
- Do a full backup of s0 on day 0.
- On day 1, I would create a
Hello Dor,
I'm glad I could convince you of the value of Livebackup. I
think Livesnapshot/Livemerge, Livebackup and Block
Migration all have very interesting use cases. For example:
- Livesnapshot/Livemerge is very useful in development/QA
environments where one might want to create a snapshot
