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Re: [Xen-users] Consistent VM image backups

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Consistent VM image backups
From: Christian Zoffoli <czoffoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:21:43 +0100
Cc: Mike Sun <msun@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Il 27/01/2011 23:00, Mike Sun ha scritto:
> Hi,
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> My overall goal is to be able to take periodic, incremental snapshots
> of the VM's disks.  I thought about using LVM2's snapshotting
> functionality as well as ZFS.  Any recommendations as to the best way
> to take incremental snapshots of a file backed virtual disk?

suse sles 11 sp1 can snapshot a vm (disk+status+mem) if you use qcow2
disk format.

Christian

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