I'm working with remote backups of large files, and found a solution that
can be used when the backup file is quite similar to the previous one.
I think that it could be used to send by rsync large backups of virtual disks.
Basically, you have to:
* gzip --rsyncable today_backup_file (very
Yes, I see BackupPC as a solution for what I call data archive backups,
as opposed to full host bare-metal.
For the latter wrt physical machines I tend to do relatively infrequent
image snapshots of the boot and system partitions, keeping
frequently-changing working data on separate partitions,
Hi Jim,
I think I was not able to make myself perfectly clear: I don't use virtual disk
images.
I use LVM-Volumes instead (you can think of them as partitions that are
presented as block devices to ma virtual machines).
One thing you stated about doing virtual disk image backups is that
Hi,
thank you for your response.
At the moment I don't use disk images. Instead I use LVM volumes which are
directly connected to my KVM-machines.
There is a way like creating images of the LVM volumes with a image tool like
partimage. These images would be compressed like 50GB in combined
Two completely separate backup schemes are needed here.
One for full cold-metal restores of the boot/OS level stuff, and IMO this
is best done with imaging style software, in your case specifically
targeted for windoze/ntfs systems. These don't need to be done very
frequently, as little is
Hi,
I use BackupPC for backups, and Urbackup for disaster recovery, imaging the
boot drive only. BackupPC does the data drive.
http://www.urbackup.org/
Gerald
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Two completely separate backup schemes are needed here.
One for full cold-metal restores of the
On 16/04/12 11:50, Andreas Piening wrote:
Hi,
thank you for your response.
At the moment I don't use disk images. Instead I use LVM volumes which are
directly connected to my KVM-machines.
There is a way like creating images of the LVM volumes with a image tool like
partimage. These
- Original Message -
From: Andreas Piening andreas.pien...@gmail.com
One thing you stated about doing virtual disk image backups is that
they're huge. As soon as anything in the virtual machine changes,
the complete image needs to be stored again to keep the image backup
in sync.
Hi Gerald,
urbackup is completely new to me. The features sounds exactly like what I need.
The website and documentation doesn't look that evolved from the first sight,
at least compared to backupPC. But I think I just need to try the software out:
The setup looks easy and I think I can do a
On Sunday, April 15, 2012, at 7:37:20 PM, Andreas Piening wrote:
= I need to be able to completely restore the system including the
= virtual machines if the machine gets lost, or damaged to a
= non-repairable state
If you do a full backup of the host, including all the KVM configuration
and VM
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