On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:50:30 +0000
Steve Kemp <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:39:52AM -0800, Ram wrote:
>
> > > I think that will be the thing to try working with next. I
> > > assume that pausing the image then doing a local rsync will
> > > be reasonably quick. But I will need to test it.
> >
> > Thinking a bit more, you might be better off doing the following:
> > - Pause the virtual system
> > - backup from the physical system
> > - restart the virtual system
>
> Thats pretty much how I took your suggestion :)
>
> > Also, if you are already backing up your physical, extending it to do
> > this above might be less work.
>
> Yes, indeed.
>
> The physical host will be backed up - so adding the "copied" virtual
> images is the obvious thing to do. I can't backup the live systems
> directly is the problem.
Because the kernel buffers might not be flushed to disk, you may either want to
save/restore (instead of pause/unpause, and include RAM as part of backup) or
sync the disks from inside the VM before backing up.
Also, instead of straight rsync, check out rdiff-backup for incremental backups
based on rsync, I really like this program:
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/
Tim
_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
|
Home