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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20121127/ef7aa31c/attachment-0006.html>