Hello Richard
On 17.10.2011 12:45, Richard Palmer wrote:
Or perhaps the backup agent should run inside each virtual machine
rather than backing up the vm image ?. Any advantages/disadvantages ?
Personally I would run the bacula-fd inside the VM and back it up
as I do it with a physical systems. The advantage is, that the OS
in the VM is running without any interruption.
With the stopped/suspended VM and backing up the image file, you
have the advantage of doing a snapshot backup of the file system
of the VM. But then it would probably also help to backup the
memory of the running VM (does the OpenNebula or Hypervisor write
this to disk when doing 'onevm suspend <vm_id>'?). But the
disadvantage is the paused OS during the backup, any running
services on it (eg. web sites) are not available then. And
probably also currently open network connections can break. This
depends of the duration of the backup.
I guess the decision depends also of the usage of the VM. Both
scenarios have advantages and disadvantages.
bye
Fabian
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