[CentOS-virt] Backing up a running KVM guest

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

rms at 1407.org
Wed Mar 25 22:06:46 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:22:43PM +0000, Julian Price wrote:
> It has not been released yet and it's a first draft, so break it to me  
> gently...
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupKVMGuest

Interesting read. One other alternative, with drbd:
  1) break sync on other node
  2) backup on other node
  3) resync other node

Of course, drbd may not be best suited for disk intensive uses but your
milleage may vary...

Rui

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