[CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

[James A. Peltier]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, nate wrote:

> Suggest reading this interesting piece "3 years of equallogic" before
> thinking about using it's snapshot stuff -
>
> http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/61-Three-Years-of-Equallogic.html

If you do snapshotting at the OS level, i.e. LVM snapshots or ZFS 
snapshots than EQ is a pretty nice piece of equipment, otherwise, don't 
even get me started. :)

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