Patrick M. Hausen schrieb: > So if you want to backup/copy an entire VM with the guarantee of > consistent hard disk state, you need to shut it down. Copying > a multi gigabyte virtal disk file is bound to take quite some time. > > So you need to power down your virtual machine for what can amount > to hours.
What about combining it with LVM-snapshots? host your VMs on a LV at backup-time you shutdown the VM(s), generate a LV-snapshot, power on the VM(s) again (nearly as fast as a simple reboot ...), amdump the LV-snapshot ..... I have that opportunity here in the given case, everything VM-related hosted on LVM. (Yes, this only works on Linux, all you Solaris/etc people ;-) ) Stefan
