This may be of use, although the author does state that it is a work in
progress.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupKVMGuest
Backing up a live virtual machine seems like a pretty logical thing, I'm
somewhat surprised that what seems like a work-around with LVM is the
best way to accomplish th
Thank you, Roy!
On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:19 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
wrote:
> On 10. aug.. 2009, at 23.28, Michael S. Mason wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> My name is Michael,
>>
>> I have a new Dell Server that I am about to install Ubuntu 9.04
>> Server
>> AMD64 onto. I have 4 GB's of RAM. My qu
James Dinkel wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Jarl Friis wrote:
>
>
>> So I am going for a scheduled down time and just
>> virsh shutdown
>> make backup of disk-image
>> virsh start
>>
>>
>
> Even if you are going to shutdown the virtual machines, you can still use
> lvm snapshots
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Jarl Friis wrote:
>
> So I am going for a scheduled down time and just
> virsh shutdown
> make backup of disk-image
> virsh start
>
Even if you are going to shutdown the virtual machines, you can still use
lvm snapshots to minimize your downtime. Shutdown all yo
brent timothy saner writes:
[]
> hey, jarl-
>
> this all depends on what /kind/ of backup you want. if you want
> versioned backups in regards to the files ON them, then an archiving
> backup system- something like boxbackup- running on a different VM or a
> different host altogether would be th
On 10. aug.. 2009, at 23.28, Michael S. Mason wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> My name is Michael,
>
> I have a new Dell Server that I am about to install Ubuntu 9.04 Server
> AMD64 onto. I have 4 GB's of RAM. My question? Is there any need for a
> SWAP partition with 4GB's of RAM?
Hi
I see you have got
