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RE: [Xen-users] cloning guests between Dom0's ?

Ferreira, N.L. wrote:

For a LVM LV you can do the following (using the LVM snapshot) without shutting down the domU:

lvcreate -s /dev/vg/domU -L1G -n domU_snap
mkdir /mnt/domU_snap
mount /dev/vg/domU_snap /mnt/domU_snap
tar cvjpf /storage/path/domU_snapshot.tbz /mnt/domU_snap
lvremove /dev/vg/domU_snap

Is this correct ? I know the LVM snapshot will give you a "point in time" image, but won't the DomU have unwritten changes in it's cache - giving you a very unclean filesystem ?


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