How about attaching a disk with mconsole, mount it in the guest, copy the data, umount, detach disk. done?
Chris Lightfoot wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:14:53PM -0500, Jonas Meyer wrote: >> Hmm... What is the preferred method of backup for a VM then? As I >> said, I'd rather not install ssh on every guest if I don't have to. > > depends how consistent a backup you need and what level of > resource usage you can tolerate. e.g. you could pause the > VM, copy the whole filesystem, and back up the result > (accepting that you'll modify the copy when mounting it). > or you could make a snapshot of the block device > underlying the VMs' filesystems and then back that up > however you want. etc. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
