Dear Rudi Servo, So you actually have to power off VM guest to take the LVM snapshot and then synchronize the disk with DRDB. Do you automated this procedure using a cronjob or anything similar? Did you restore an image with success? Thank you all, -- Andry Michaelidou Papa | IT Systems Administrator|Department of Computer Science| University of Cyprus Tel: +357.22.892734 | Fax: +357.22.8927231 | http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy On 27/11/2012 13:39, Philip Durbin wrote: > see also > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Virt_Live_Snapshots#Live_backup > and http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg00782.html > via http://irclog.perlgeek.de/crimsonfu/2012-10-24 > > On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:23 AM, Rudi Servo <rudiservo at gmail.com > <mailto:rudiservo at gmail.com>> wrote: > >> I don't believe that Centoss yet capable of such feature, live backup >> is recent and FAIK its available on Fedora 17/18. >> To workaround this issue I use DRBD and LVM snapshot. >> >> 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. >> >> Hope I helped >> >> On 11/27/2012 07:45 AM, Andry Michaelidou wrote: >>> Hello to you all! >>> >>> 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. >>> 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. >>> 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. >>> Did anyone try to create image backups online? What about >>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Livebackup? >>> Can you please advise? >>> >>> -- >>> Andry Michaelidou Papa | IT Systems Administrator|Department of >>> Computer Science| University of Cyprus >>> Tel: +357.22.892734 | Fax: +357.22.8927231 | http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 <mailto: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/20121127/7c677cf0/attachment-0004.html>