Re: [Xen-users] Backup; mount domU FS RO?

[Andy Smith <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:59:59PM +0000, cornet@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 09:26:12PM +0100, Ralf Folkerts wrote:
> >
> >>I found some warnings that Filesystems may not be mounted RW by more
> >>than one domain / system (makes sense when they don't "know" about each
> >>other). However, are there any issues mounting a Filesystem Read-Only,
> >>then have it being backed-up by Bacula and then unmount it?

[...]

> >You need a cluster filesystem susch as GFS or OCFS2 to do this.
> 
> Or if you use LVM you can create snapshots from which you can backup 
> your data.

Unfortunately LVM snapshots are still considered too buggy (by Red
Hat themselves) for production use.

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