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Re: [Xen-users] Using dd and gzip to backup LVM backed domUs

To: Agent Rooker <agentrooker@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Using dd and gzip to backup LVM backed domUs
From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:19:20 +0200
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Agent Rooker schrieb:
I'm trying to come up with the best way to backup my xen domUs.  I
have a logical volume containing an ext3 root filesystem for each
domU.  Basically, I want to back up the whole filesystem in such a way
that I could restore the image on another xen server in the case of
hardware failure.   My idea so far is to back up the logical volume
with a command of this form (from the dom0):

Unless you have Windows domains, the easiest approach would be to simply copy the files.

cp, tar, rsync - pick the one you like.

If you want a good backup system, try BackupPC - http://backuppc.sf.net


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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