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Re: [Xen-users] Backup domU



On 09/07/2011 10:42, Simon Hobson wrote:
Steve Allison wrote:

The backup is also on the same disks as the live system.
I don't know why you make this point, as, at least in this thread, 
the target of the backup is not mentioned and is trivial to have it 
point to another system.
I wasn't aware LVM could create a snapshot which puts a complete copy 
of the volume on another disk. In fact, AUIU, a snapshot doesn't 
actually copy the whole volume, it creates a COW setup which saves any 
blocks subsequently written to.
Exactly. So you put the LVM into a snapshot state, and "backup off the 
snapshot, nice and clean then destroy the snapshot when finished".
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May the ping be with you ..


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