Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:07:30PM -0800, nate wrote: Simon Billis wrote: Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete VM image or files from the VM filesystem. Entry level storage from

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Billis
Pasi Kärkkäinen sent a missive on 2010-02-09: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:07:30PM -0800, nate wrote: Simon Billis wrote: Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete VM image or files from the VM

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-07: 2010/2/5 Simon Billis si...@houxou.com Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's to disk and taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread nate
Simon Billis wrote: Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete VM image or files from the VM filesystem. Entry level storage from suppliers such as Equallogic/Dell comes with this functionality

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread James A. Peltier
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, nate wrote: Suggest reading this interesting piece 3 years of equallogic before thinking about using it's snapshot stuff - http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/61-Three-Years-of-Equallogic.html If you do snapshotting at the OS level, i.e. LVM snapshots or ZFS

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
2010/2/5 Simon Billis si...@houxou.com Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's to disk and taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods (application aware) to disk/tape for archival and

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: 2010/2/5 Simon Billis si...@houxou.com mailto:si...@houxou.com Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's to disk and taking a snap and also using traditional

[CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Rafał Radecki sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R. Do you have any shared storage that you're

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/2/5 Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com: I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? Try the XenServer mailing lists or wiki? http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/