This may be of use, although the author does state that it is a work in progress. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupKVMGuest
Backing up a live virtual machine seems like a pretty logical thing, I'm somewhat surprised that what seems like a work-around with LVM is the best way to accomplish this. Matoc > 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. > > Brazen -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
