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2009 Mar 25
1
Backing up a running KVM guest
...what you think, particularly if you are
already doing something similar yourself, or would like to. Do you have
answers to any of the questions in the 'Questions' section?
It has not been released yet and it's a first draft, so break it to me
gently...
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BackupKVMGuest
(The article's internal Wiki links are broken - not sure what's going on
there, but ignore that)
A taster...
1. Introduction
This article explains how to backup a virtual hard disk to a remote
location, even while it is use.
One advantage of running software in a virtual machine...
2009 Mar 21
2
How to back up a running KVM guest
Hi
Please create a page on the wiki for a HowTo with the subject:
"How to back up a running KVM guest"
This will explain how to use LVM to take a snaphot of a KVM guest's
virtual hard drive and rsync it to a remote backup server.
I have a prototype running but there are still many issues to be
resolved affecting performance, security, reliability, automation. I
intend to