Thanks for the reply, but it would be more appropriate to reply to the mailing list.
James Dinkel <[email protected]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Jarl Friis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am having some virtual machiines on my ubuntu server 9.04-AMD64. The >> machines are KVM, I aam using libvirt to manage them. >> >> I wonder what is the recomende way to backup these machines. >> >> Is it just to >> virsh suspend >> backup >> virsh resume >> >> Or are there any other documents/pages discussing this issue? >> > > We run our servers 24/7, so suspending the virtual machines is not an > option. My solution has been to store the disk images on lvm volumes and > take a snapshot of the lvm volume, then backup the disk images from the > snapshot. > > Brazen -- Jarl Friis Gavia Technologies ApS Omøgade 8, 2.sal 2100 København Ø. Denmark Phone: +45 26 13 20 90 E-mail: [email protected] LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jarlfriis -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
