brent timothy saner <[email protected]> writes: []
> hey, jarl- > > this all depends on what /kind/ of backup you want. if you want > versioned backups in regards to the files ON them, then an archiving > backup system- something like boxbackup- running on a different VM or a > different host altogether would be the way to go (and run the backup > client daemon from inside the VM). this minimizes downtime, as the VM > would not need to be down to make the backups. > > if, however, you want a bare metal image type backup (i.e. contingency > in case it all hits the fan), then you can stop the vm and then copy the > hard disk image (i'd also backup any associated configs/scripts) from > the host (and i'd recomment tarballing and gzipping them). Yes this is what I want. > additionally, KVM supports something called "snapshotting" as i recall- > i never delved very deeply into kvm so i may be mistaken, but i recall > it supporting it with certain types of the virtual disk (i believe it > does NOT work with the "raw" type. for anyone who knows better, please > feel free to correct me). Yeah. This is what "virsh save" is for I guess. However this is broken in Jaunty: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/411417 So I am going for a scheduled down time and just virsh shutdown make backup of disk-image virsh start Thanks for all the input. Jarl -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
