On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:51:59PM +0000, John Haxby wrote: > 2009/12/28 J Newbie <[1][email protected]> > > Btw, any other recommendation for backing up virtual machines. > > Yes, do the backup as you would a bare-metal machine. Backing up virtual > machines from "outside" is tricky -- you need the guest OS and > applications to put themselves into a consistent state so that any attempt > to copy the guest's disk(s) doesn't result in an inconsistent mess. It's > generally easier to do the backup from within the guest just as though it > was bare metal; if you can't do that then you should shut the guest down > before backing up (and powered off machine is sufficiently consistent). > jch >
We'd really need something like Windows VSS, to be able to coordinate the disk snapshots with the apps running in the guest.. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
