Re: [Xen-users] can I clone a runiung domU?

[Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> > > I'd like to know if it's possible to clone a running domU. The LVM 
> > > image is 30GB. I can't really afford to have the
> > > running one off line that long, so if possible I'd like todo it while
> > > it's running.
> > >     
> > dd almost certainly won't give you a usable filesystem in your copy.
> >
> > Using LVM you should be able to make a snapshot of the filesystem which
> > should be at least as consistent (integrity wise) as if you'd done an
> > 'xm destroy' on the domain.
> >
> >   
> A neat way to do that is if you use zfs-backed storage, either 
> directly (using Sun's xVM) or having solaris export the volume over 
> iscsi to linux box. The "clone" process for zfs is two simple commands 
> : "zfs snanpshot" and "zfs clone", which is almost instaneous.
> Regards,
>
> Fajar
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>
> _______________________________________________
Sure, but I don't. I'm using CentOS as OS, with ext3 :) So, I need to 
work with what I have
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Rudi Ahlers

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