I was surprised no one has mentioned partimage. I've used partimage for a long time.
http://www.partimage.org/ Supports the basic filesystems. I have also used it with windows NTFS images many times. Brad On 11/21/05, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 14:30 -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > > Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > > Main site: > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ > > > > > > You could do a file backed VM and make snapshots of the file as you > need > > > to. Restoring a whole system would be as easy as `cp sys1.backupsys1`. > > > Ubiquitous Xen is going to make things sweet for sysadmins. > > > > > > Gabe > > > > That is a very interesting idea. Is there a significant performance > > loss running the VM? > > Yes. About 1% overhead. Also if you use disk images, you take another > hit, since all disk access has to pass through an extra layer (the host > file system). In a real cluster this wouldn't be an issue since all > storage would come off of a NAS system via iSCSI or fiber channel (which > can be ported directly into the VM). > > Michael > > > > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net<http://irc.freenode.net> > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > -- > Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net <http://irc.freenode.net> > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
