> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bayer > > We are moving into the VM area, using KVM on Redhat 5/6 systems. > > Our VMs are a mix of disk image files, and LVM partitions. > > On thing I don't have yet is a good backup strategy for all the VMs > > The critical VMs are replicated using MySQL replication, but that's only > a few. > > How do others approach this? I should say that the main servers are > backed up by our hosting provider (Rackspace), who wants nothing to do > with the VMs
If possible, move your storage to something like ZFS which can do snapshots and incremental sends to external/removable storage. Otherwise, you have to backup the guest VM's just like you would any other server. Go into the VM, configure a cron job that will run an internal backup utility such as dump, and mysqldump, and mysql replication, etc. I don't understand your comment about rackspace. You know they host a VM cloud, right? But it seems you want to host your own inside a server that you have at their site? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
