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Re: [Xen-users] Block level domU backup

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Block level domU backup
From: John Madden <jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:19:41 -0400
Cc: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>, Luke S Crawford <lsc@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Wednesday 29 October 2008 12:13:27 am Luke S Crawford wrote:
> the idea is that 'xm save' saves your ram, including any write-back
> disk cash that has not been flushed.  So if I do a 'xm save' and save the
> savefile, and take a bit-for-bit copy of the backing device while the
> domain is still frozen, I should be able to restore the bit-for-bit copy
> of the backing device at some point in the future, and then 'xm restore'
> the savefile I saved, and end up exactly where I was, with no
> inconsistancies or corruptions, as all disk writes that had not been
> flushed to disk are still in ram.

Yes, saving the domain and backing up the saved instance will work.  Pausing 
will not. 

John




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John Madden
Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx

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