On 13-04-06 01:46 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:50:13 -0700 > Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote: > >> I would say that the vbox snapshots are not the path you want to take >> for backups. VBox snapshots are great when experimenting with software, >> or creating a library using a base images. If you do a VBox snapshot >> online, then you also have a .sav file, and you have to wait for the >> save/resume to complete before it can come back online. If you can >> afford downtime, then I would power off the VM to get a consistent state >> of your data. >> >> Other people may be able to chime in here, but if you looking at using >> it for backups, then pausing the machine, and using LVM may be something >> that works, because after you take the backup, you delete the lvm >> snapshot. You will need to delete the backup though because LVM doesn't >> scale well for snapshots. In the past I used LVM and raw disks to do this. >> >> Geoff > Hm, but your script does suspend/resume the vm, too. I cannot see a big > difference to a vm snapshot ... ? > >
The script uses the virsh suspend command which just pauses the VM temporarily until it is resumed, which is pretty much instant. http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Managing_guests_with_virsh.html Whereas the vbox "savestate" when doing a snapshot takes a lot longer, because it writes out the active memory to a saved state file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
