On 05/10/2011 11:35 AM, Bart Coninckx wrote: > Hi, > > I plan to use a dual primary setup for Xen DomUs. The DRBD devices are > created on top of LVM LVs. > Before, I used to do this on top of iSCSI devices and for backup I just > dd-ed the snapshotted LVM device after the DomU was saved (and thus > temporarely down). > > > When I would follow this strategy with this LVM-DRBD dual primary setup, > I will have more than likely the DRBD metadata in the dd dump > (complicating restores). > > Is there anything I can do do have a "clean" backup of the Xen DomU when > it is saved and when the LV underneath the DRBD device is snapshotted? > > thx!
If you use CLVM (clustered LVM), then snapshotting won't work from the dom0 level. I deal with this by temporarily attaching a small LV to the domU and using it as the snapshot partition within the domU itself, and then rsync (or dd) out the data to the backup server. -- Digimer E-Mail: [email protected] AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org "I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries." _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
