Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > 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 > > drdb - If I understand right, this is another way to take a snapshot - similar to taking one disk out of a RAID1, backing it up then rebuilding the RAID. The LVM snapshot requires space and degrades performance during the backup and your method suffers neither of those disadvantages. Thanks for the suggestion. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20090325/1ed4e3fd/attachment-0006.html>