Re: [ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: snapshots in a clvm environment - some questions for proceeding

2017-03-01 Thread Lentes, Bernd
> > Actually that's what we are doing, but at some point in the past I had ruined > the directory with the VM images (user error). THe problem then was that you > need a running VM to restore files inside the VM. This is when you would like > to have a crash-consistent backup image of your VM.

Re: [ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: snapshots in a clvm environment - some questions for proceeding

2017-03-01 Thread Lentes, Bernd
- On Mar 1, 2017, at 8:11 AM, Ulrich Windl ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de wrote: Digimer schrieb am 24.02.2017 um 19:20 in Nachricht > <8762afa9-0f45-04c7-2404-565dcabf9...@alteeve.ca>: > > [...] >> Aside from this, I strongly recommend against snapshots as a

[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: snapshots in a clvm environment - some questions for proceeding

2017-02-28 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> Digimer schrieb am 24.02.2017 um 19:20 in Nachricht <8762afa9-0f45-04c7-2404-565dcabf9...@alteeve.ca>: [...] > Aside from this, I strongly recommend against snapshots as a backup > mechanism anyway. There is no way to ensure that that operating system > and applications are