RE: [Xen-users] iSCSI Volumes and Xen

[Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If it were my data, I'd do conventional backups.  

That's what we do, as well.  I have tried filesystem snapshots, and they work, 
but it's much harder to document for other SA's.  Everyone understands the 
concept of traditional backup mechanisms, though, so that's what I stick with.

The exception to this is that I will on occasion take a disk image during a 
maintenance cycle - that way, I have a good, existing environment I can restore 
a backup into - or that I can use to create the domU in a test environment and 
test DR procedures, patches, configurations, etc.  My process for that is 
shutdown, create snapshot, boot domU, use dd to copy the snapshot to a file, 
delete snapshot.

Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg

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