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Re: [Xen-users] Best practice to backup dom0 and all domU's

To: Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Best practice to backup dom0 and all domU's
From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:15:44 +0200
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Stefan de Konink wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

OpenSolaris is free. There you go. You even get ZFS doing snapshots of
live iscsi mounts.

What has opensolaris got to do with it?

It is a free iSCSI server?


Stefan


Stefan, you may have a spare server in the office for this, but in a hosting environment, you have to pay for every server you want, and I have to be honest with you, it's cheaper to buy 200GB FTP space, than another server JUST for backups. And I don't see why any host who doesn't offer / use iSCSI should suddenly start offering it just cause OpenSolaris is free. Cause what you say is to have an iSCSI server with the VM's on, and then backup that server, so that means you'd need 3 physical servers

OpenSolaris isn't the answer to everything.

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