On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Stan Hoeppner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/25/2012 3:08 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> agreed, KVM backup is is one of them. i am facing this problem most >> often so as a workaround i need to backup all the VMs locally and then >> i have to scp them to other network storage. > > scp is not the proper application for this due to overhead, and the fact > that VM image files don't have security issues requiring encryption on > the wire. You should be using ftp or some other file transfer program > that doesn't use encryption.
Thanks for the advice now i will create an ftp share for the VM database. > > With VM images you'll need to snapshot them anyway due to state. And I > suppose that you've tried to snapshot directly to a Samba share will > poor performance. Snapping to an iSCSI target should help here, > assuming you do a god job with your self made storage host exposing the > LUNs. Yes snapping is the problem due to which i have to make the snapshot on local drive and further i have to copy the whole stuff via SCP. do you think iSCSI LUNs are faster as FTP. or i should first make a local copy then FTP to Storage? Thanks > > -- > Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfMmte7QO[email protected]
