Hi All, Thanks for all your suggestion. Just a check, if i have a full backup on the server but due to the different specs of the hardware so i am unable to do a bare metal restore, can i just dump all the folders under /var/lib/libvirt which also includes the images folder? Will it work that way? Here is the folders in libvirt: [root at pop-kvm-web libvirt]# ls boot images iptables network qemu Thanks! yongsan On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:27 AM, C.J. Adams-Collier <cjac at colliertech.org>wrote: > If you do it often, you might consider listening for ssh connections on > a separate port and using tc to keep things from getting out of hand: > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/tc > > Cheers, > > C.J. > > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:17 -0700, Christopher Hunt wrote: > > +1 for dd + nc over ssh if necessary. > > > > This process can and probably will saturate your ethernet > interface, so > > depending upon the amount of traffic the box pushes on the public > > interface the size of the partition and other factors, sometimes i add a > > crossover cable between unused interfaces on the 2 boxes and run the > > process over that interface, so it doesn't impact the running vms. > > > > Cheers > > -Chris > > > > On 6/24/2010 9:00 AM, centos-virt-request at centos.org wrote: > > > > > Message: 3 > > > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:52:57 -0400 > > > From: Kelvin Edmison<kelvin at kindsight.net> > > > Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] (KVM) How can I migrate VM in a non shared > > > storage environment? > > > To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS > > > <centos-virt at centos.org> > > > Message-ID:<C848E989.30D95%kelvin at kindsight.net<C848E989.30D95%25kelvin at kindsight.net> > > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 24/06/10 7:17 AM, "Poh Yong Hwang"<yongsan at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> I have a server running CentOS 5.5 with KVM capabilities. I need to > migrate > > >> all the VMs to another server with the exact same hardware specs. The > problem > > >> is it is running on individual harddisks, not shared storage. What is > the best > > >> way to migrate to minimise downtime? > > > > > > I've had good success using dd and nc (netcat) to copy the contents of > a > > > disk or disk image from one machine to another, and verifying the copy > was > > > successful with a md5sum or sha1sum of both the original and copied > disk. > > > > > > Kelvin > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS-virt mailing list > > > CentOS-virt at centos.org > > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > > > > > > > End of CentOS-virt Digest, Vol 34, Issue 13 > > > ******************************************* > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS-virt mailing list > > CentOS-virt at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20100706/e434a602/attachment-0005.html>