James Dinkel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Jarl Friis <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> So I am going for a scheduled down time and just >> virsh shutdown >> make backup of disk-image >> virsh start >> >> > > Even if you are going to shutdown the virtual machines, you can still use > lvm snapshots to minimize your downtime. Shutdown all your virtual > machines, take an lvm snapshot of the volume with the disk images, then > power back on your virtual machines. Then you can back up the disk images > from the lvm snapshot and you don't have to wait for the backup to complete > before powering your machines back on. > That is what I use with xen enviroments, of course only for OS filesystems, data filesistems are backed up with bacula. > Brazen > >
-- Jorge Armando Medina Computación Gráfica de México Web: http://www.e-compugraf.com Tel: 55 51 40 72, Ext: 124 Email: [email protected] GPG Key: 1024D/28E40632 2007-07-26 GPG Fingerprint: 59E2 0C7C F128 B550 B3A6 D3AF C574 8422 28E4 0632
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
-- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
