op 13-02-14 13:34, g schreef: > > On 02/13/2014 12:03 PM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> because the organization I work for has to enter the 21 century > > eventually, and encouraged by the the excellent wiki's available, >> I'm giving Xen a try. >> >> I' ve tested setting it all up but I have this question concerning >> making backups. >> >> i' ve noticed that virsh snaphot-create does not work, and googling > > this, I can find many posts describing making backups with rbackup, > > lvm , dd, .... >> The thing is there is not always a date with these posts and articles, >> so before I dig into this: >> >> Is this still the way this is done, or is there now a more >> straightforward way to backup ( Xen ) vm's? > have a look "in the horse's mouth". > > http://www.xenproject.org/component/search/?searchword=backup&searchphrase=all&Itemid=435 > > [watch for line wrap] > >> Many thanks for any advise. > many welcomes. > > Hello g, hello All, thanks for the reaction. I see nothing on the Xen site applicable to my ( relatively simple ) Xen-on-Centos6 setup. I don't want to install a control panel or Xen Xcp. I will try this one : http://www.jansipke.nl/creating-backups-of-running-vms-in-xenserver/ * Search for the uuid of the VMs to backup # xe vm-list is-control-domain=false is-a-snapshot=false * Create a snapshot of each (running) VM # xe vm-snapshot uuid=d61bfc1a-33b2-5406-7ea5-76e4f7113220 new-name-label=snapshotname * Save the snapshot to file # xe template-param-set is-a-template=false ha-always-run=false uuid=b759625c-eab5-4e0f- be5e-a05bcbad869a #xe vm-export vm=b759625c-eab5-4e0f-be5e-a05bcbad869a filename=filename.xva * Remove the created snapshot # xe vm-uninstall uuid=b759625c-eab5-4e0f-be5e-a05bcbad869a force=true and see how it goes. Greetings to All