2009/12/16 ml at johestephan.de <ml at johestephan.de>: > Hi all, > > As far as I know ist there no need to dd the hole disk. It should fit if you > So just: > > - take the snap > - mount it > - pack it Yep, but you'll not be able to restore it into a bootable system again if you only backup the files. You could however, take a backup with dd of the partitiontable+bootloader and then afterwards backup the files of each partition. On a restore you would then copy back the partitiontable+bootloader, format the filesystems and copy the files back. But comparing this hacky solution to just using qcow2 on top of a Linux filsystem, the qcow2 solution seems much nicer :) Especially now when the qcow2 performance has been highly optimized: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_qcow2_Performance https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1659.html Best Regards Kenni Lund