Umm, not to be a pest, but aren't we kind of over-engineering here? 

Coupled with LVM or EVMS snapshots, there are good in-guest backup
utilities easily available that make this problem trivially disappear,
and you get file-level backup and restore as a freebie. Do we really
need to teach CP the innards of various guests and break the
virtualization model to do so? I don't' think so. If you need that kind
of HA, you need to set up the system to support it, eg using a storage
virtualization layer like LVM2 or EVMS. 

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