Thanks, just to check I was not missing something I can use myself to ease my days :-) Regards,
On 30/11/13 18:40, Blaster wrote: > > > On 11/27/2013 11:27 AM, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just curious, is it really the porpoise of the snapshot to backup both >> the vm and the application data? I think snapshot is appropriate to >> backup the vm and the you should have your regular backup for the app, >> as a database backup that can be done online. In this scenario you take >> a backup of the vm when something changes (updates, new software, >> configs, etc) and not all the time and do regular backups of the db as >> it's the information that changes all the time. >> I said this because I'm curious about the benefits of doing backups the >> way it's been posted. >> Regards, > > Contrary to my other post, which was more educational than practical, > yes, you generally would not back up app data via a hypervisor > snapshot. Generally you would only backup the OS disk and perhaps the > application binaries. This would be for quick restore of the OS and > app, so you don't have to spend hours reconfiguring your OS. > (especially Windows based OSes....) > > I also do an IN OS backup as well, for individual file restores in the > instances you accidentally destroy something in /etc for example. > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
