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Re: [Xen-users] restoring files to guest domains

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] restoring files to guest domains
From: "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:52:58 -0500
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Jared <list-xen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  file to actually show up.  Like I said, I must either be really dense or I'm
>  just misunderstanding the meaning of "read/write" here, because the file is
>  certainly not being written as I'd expect.

as Fajar has said, the R/W snapshots don't work like that.  being R/W
means that you can write to the snapshot, so that you can have several
versions of a volume, all a little different, all independently
writable.

IMO, the easiest way to copy back a file is simply using a network
filesystem.  you restore from backup to a file server, and read it
from the DomU.

if the DomU is totally unstable/unbootable/untrustable, then it
shouldn't be running, so you can mount its volume on Dom0, and rebuild
it (using the backup) before starting up again.


-- 
Javier

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