[CentOS-virt] About doing backups with kvm guests
Christopher G. Stach II
cgs at ldsys.net
Fri Dec 11 11:38:18 UTC 2009
----- "carlopmart" <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> which is the best form to backup and restore these windows guests?
> Some examples?
Shadow copy and amanda/zmanda.
> I see snapshot's lvm option, but I think that this option it is not
> valid for
> windows guests...
It's valid if you don't need a clean backup. :) Usually, a dump of a snapshot is good enough if it is read-mostly. It's probably better than nothing, although not recommended since there are no guarantees.
> probably I need to use dd?? But if i use dd, how can
> I restore lvm
> image onto another host with lvm partitions?
dd
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Christopher G. Stach II
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