Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-16 Thread Kenni Lund
2009/12/16 m...@johestephan.de : > Hi all, > > As far as I know ist there no need to dd the hole disk. It should fit if you > So just: > > - take the snap > - mount it > - pack it Yep, but you'll not be able to restore it into a bootable system again if you only backup the files. You could however

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-16 Thread m...@johestephan.de
Hi all, just to add some ideas to lvm snapshots. As far as I know ist there no need to dd the hole disk. It should fit if you just make the lvm snap ant mount it to any device you want. So you could pack the hole img and store it via bacula or something else. And you normally dont need to shut do

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-12 Thread Kenni Lund
2009/12/12 Christopher G. Stach II : > - "Kenni Lund" wrote: > >> I'm also very interested in how to make backups of Windows guests on >> LVM. But will the shadow copy feature in amanda not only backup the >> files within the Windows machine? I don't think I fully understand >> the >> method -

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-12 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- "Kenni Lund" wrote: > I'm also very interested in how to make backups of Windows guests on > LVM. But will the shadow copy feature in amanda not only backup the > files within the Windows machine? I don't think I fully understand > the > method - How do you then do a full restore, eg. with

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-12 Thread Kenni Lund
2009/12/11 Christopher G. Stach II : > > - "carlopmart" wrote: > >> Christopher G. Stach II wrote: >> > - "carlopmart" wrote: >> > >> >>   which is the best form to backup and restore these windows >> guests? >> >> Some examples? >> > >> > Shadow copy and amanda/zmanda. >> > >> Do you mea

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- "carlopmart" wrote: > Christopher G. Stach II wrote: > > - "carlopmart" wrote: > > > >> which is the best form to backup and restore these windows > guests? > >> Some examples? > > > > Shadow copy and amanda/zmanda. > > > Do you mean "Volume Shadow copy" Windows feature? Yep.

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-11 Thread carlopmart
Christopher G. Stach II wrote: > - "carlopmart" wrote: > >> which is the best form to backup and restore these windows guests? >> Some examples? > > Shadow copy and amanda/zmanda. > Do you mean "Volume Shadow copy" Windows feature? -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com __

Re: [CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher G. Stach II
- "carlopmart" wrote: > which is the best form to backup and restore these windows guests? > Some examples? Shadow copy and amanda/zmanda. > I see snapshot's lvm option, but I think that this option it is not > valid for > windows guests... It's valid if you don't need a clean backup.

[CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests

2009-12-11 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, I have two centos 5.4 servers that I use to run several windows kvm guests (10). All works ok (more or less) but I have a problem with backups. These windows guests are configured to use lvm partitions as a virtual disks. My problem is when I need to do guests backups. which is