Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Billis
Pasi Kärkkäinen sent a missive on 2010-02-09: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:07:30PM -0800, nate wrote: >> Simon Billis wrote: >> >>> Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the >>> functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete >>> VM image or files

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:07:30PM -0800, nate wrote: > Simon Billis wrote: > > > Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the > > functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete VM > > image or files from the VM filesystem. Entry level storage from s

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread James A. Peltier
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, nate wrote: > Suggest reading this interesting piece "3 years of equallogic" before > thinking about using it's snapshot stuff - > > http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/61-Three-Years-of-Equallogic.html If you do snapshotting at the OS level, i.e. LVM snapshots o

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread nate
Simon Billis wrote: > Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the > functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete VM > image or files from the VM filesystem. Entry level storage from suppliers > such as Equallogic/Dell comes with this functionality

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-07: >> 2010/2/5 Simon Billis >> Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports >> snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's >> to disk and taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods >> (appli

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > 2010/2/5 Simon Billis mailto:si...@houxou.com>> > > Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports > snapshots? > If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's to disk and > taking a snap and also using traditional backup method

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-07 Thread Rudi Ahlers
2010/2/5 Simon Billis > Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports snapshots? > If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's to disk and > taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods (application aware) > to disk/tape for archival and complete fail

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-06 Thread Markus Falb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/2010 15:23, Rafał Radecki wrote: > Hi All. > > I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization > software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual > machines (Linux/Windows) in it? One way to do it is to

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2010/2/5 Rafał Radecki : > I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. > Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines > (Linux/Windows) in it? Try the XenServer mailing lists or wiki? http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/ http://lists.xensource

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Rafał Radecki sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > Hi All. > > I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization > software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual > machines (Linux/Windows) in it? > > With regards, > R. > Do you have any shared storage that yo

[CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cento