James Dinkel <[email protected]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html > > 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 sound like a reasonable improvement to my approach. I should of course make sure that "virsh save" and "virsh restore" works for powered off cirtual machines, but I would guess they do. Thanks a lot. Jarl -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
