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diff --git a/doc/backup.rst b/doc/backup.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1480926 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/backup.rst @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Backup +====== + +Cluster is meant to have a very high fail over but you might want to be able to +have some backup in case of a disaster recovery. +Another scenario is that you need to run a copy of a guest on a server outside +the cluster. +To achieve that we have to "take out" vdi from the cluster. +This is rather easy to do: + +:: + + qemu-img convert -O qcow2 sheepdog:squeeze /media/nas/squeeze.qcow2 + +To backup a snapshot named 'preUpgrade' + +:: + + qemu-img convert -O qcow2 sheepdog:squeeze:preUpgrade /media/nas/squeeze_preUpgrade.qcow2 -- 1.7.10.4 -- sheepdog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/sheepdog
