Yes, but I was migrating that guest to a new hypervisor rather than restoring to the original. The process is identical, though. Have amanda restore/recover the img file to any suitable host, then copy it where ever you need it.
-- Joi Owen System Administrator Pavlov Media, Inc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 8:17 PM To: amanda users Subject: Re: Question about backing up a MS-Windows VM (NFTS file system) On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:51:43PM +0000, Joi L. Ellis wrote: > I've got some systems in a similar situation, and I usually don't bother > backing up from the guest's filesystem directly. I have a cron job that > makes an LVM snapshot of the disk image and uses 'dd' to do make a bit image > of the entire filesystem into a .img file, and then I have Amanda back up the > .img file. Afterwards the LVM snapshot is deleted. That way I don't have to > deal with registry, acls and other windows black magic inside the file > system, I have an image of the entire disk I can dd back into the LVM volume > if it is ever needed. > > That said, If your windows-specific java app (what a moronic thing to > create...) only writes simple files that don't have further hooks into > windows, you may well do fine with a gnu tar copy of them. I've never had > much luck at that level. > > On the other hand, I do have Amanda backing up a windows XP box using > Cygwin's Amanda client and cygwin's gnu tar, and it does work, albeit very > slowly. (Ancient 32-bit XP machine with a huge hard drive in it.) > Everything I care about it is in the Cygwin section of the filesystem and > none of that has windows hooks I need to worry about. I have a DLE > configured to read /cygdrive/c/users/jlellis, which is the Cygwin-version of > C:/Users/Jlellis, my home directory under windows. > > The dd of the disk image is a lot faster than the Cygwin/amanda client/Cygwin > gnu tar, for what it's worth. > Joi, Have you ever tried a restore by the dd back to LVM method? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
