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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I have DRBD to another machine, that
      means that the LVM is replicated over the network, you can stop
      the replication process of the LVM and do the snapshot on the
      Secondary Host Machine (No VM poweroff on the Primary Host), then
      restart DRBD sync.<br>
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      Live snapshot is something I am planing to do in the next few
      days.<br>
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      You can do it either way, but if Live snapshot is feasible, then
      just a cron job of snashot and backup will sufice, although I do
      recomend to use also corosync and pacemaker for fail-over and the
      backup job to be more of a service that you can shutdown if
      something goes wrong.<br>
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      This is an ongoing project so I am still learning a lot in the
      process with the little time I have.<br>
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      Sorry for not having all the testing done and information at the
      moment.<br>
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      On 11/27/2012 10:50 AM, Andry Michaelidou wrote:<br>
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        So you actually have to power off VM guest to take the LVM
        snapshot and then synchronize the disk with DRDB.<br>
        Do you automated this procedure using a cronjob or anything
        similar? Did you restore an image with success?<br>
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        Thank you all,
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          <p><span class="style3">--<br>
              Andry Michaelidou Papa</span> <span class="style2">|</span>
            <span class="style3">IT Systems Administrator</span><span
              class="style2"> |</span><span class="style3">Department of
              Computer Science</span><span class="style2"> |</span> <span
              class="style3">University of Cyprus </span><br>
            <span class="style2"> Tel: +357.22.892734 | Fax:
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        On 27/11/2012 13:39, Philip Durbin wrote:<br>
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        <div>see also&nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Live_Snapshots#Live_backup">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Live_Snapshots#Live_backup</a>
          and&nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg00782.html">http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg00782.html</a>
          via&nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-10-24">http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-10-24</a><br>
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          On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:23 AM, Rudi Servo &lt;<a
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            <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I don't believe that Centoss
              yet capable of such feature, live backup is recent and
              FAIK its available on Fedora 17/18.<br>
              To workaround this issue I use DRBD and LVM snapshot.<br>
              <br>
              This feature is a must have since it's capable to snapshot
              disk-only (ie. qcow2), making easier to rsync and copy a
              entire disk without having the hole storage allocated or
              having big lvm's back and forth.<br>
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              Hope I helped<br>
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              On 11/27/2012 07:45 AM, Andry Michaelidou wrote:<br>
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              Hello to you all!<br>
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              We are implementing here at the University KVM
              virtualization for our servers and services and i was
              wondering if anyone try to automatically backup images.<br>
              I am actually using logical volumes for the VM guests. All
              virtual clients are installed in their LVM logical volume.
              We are already use IBM TSM for backup as we used to when
              we had physical machines, ie install client in OS and
              manage files and data backup.<br>
              I want to have an image backup additional to files backup,
              but i want to take the image online, without pause or
              suspend the VM guests.<br>
              Did anyone try to create image backups online? What about
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              <br>
              Can you please advise? <br>
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                    Andry Michaelidou Papa</span> <span class="style2">|</span>
                  <span class="style3">IT Systems Administrator</span><span
                    class="style2"> |</span><span class="style3">Department

                    of Computer Science</span><span class="style2"> |</span>
                  <span class="style3">University of Cyprus </span><br>
                  <span class="style2"> Tel: +357.22.892734 | Fax:
                    +357.22.8927231 | <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                      href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy">http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy</a>
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