The libvirt range of tools works very well with KVM, and with virt-manager, they are easy to setup on the desktop or from a remote desktop. QEMU-KVM suports the QCOW2 and LVM storage back-ends, both of which have snapshot capabilities, and the virsh tool makes it easy and scriptable. They are all licensed under the GPL or LGPL. http://libvirt.org http;//linux-kvm.org http://qemu.org
If you're using a Red Hat-based distribution, installing them should be as easy as "yum install libvirtd virt-manager qemu-kvm" or similar. ----- *question everything*learn something*answer nothing* ------------ Lucas Yamanishi ------------------ Systems Administrator, ADNET Systems, Inc. NASA Space and Earth Science Data Analysis (606.9) 7515 Mission Drive, Suite A100 Lanham, MD 20706 * 301-352-4646 * 0xE23F3D7A On 08/13/2012 07:14 PM, bin.e...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been doing a bit of research on back up and restore of FreeIPA and > so far the best plan seems to be "just back up everything" > > That's fine except for "back up everything" doesn't lend itself to > automation on a bare metal instance (which is what my primary and > replica are). To be safe I would need to take the machine down rather > than try to do a hot back up. (sync everything and backup from an > inactive fs of better yet unmounted fs) > > That got me thinking, how about a vm? They are easy to stop, checkpoint, > back up and restart. > > I want to run this by everyone and see what you think: > > Install a replica on a vm and then use THAT to capture "back ups". > > If it looks like a reasonable idea, does anyone have a suggestion for > which hypervisor would be best to use? (preferably FOSS) I only have > experience with VirtualBox but I'm not sure it's up to this type of project? > > Thanks! > > -Aaron > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipa-users mailing list > Freeipa-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users > _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
