Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 01/14/2011 07:11 AM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: > > Digimer wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> how can i backup a VM which is installed in a plain LV >> without no fs ? >>> No fs - no mount - no backup, right ? >>> I'd like to backup the vm's in the host. >>> Could a lv snapshot be helpful ? >>> >>> >>> Bernd >> >> The LV is, essentially, just like a normal hard drive from >> the point of view of the VM. To back it up, in a >> non-clustered environment, you can use tradition LVM >> snapshoting. This occurs below the VM, so it needs not know >> anything about it. >> > > But the snapshot has - i suppose - no filesystem, because the LV for the KVM has no one. So - i suppose - i can't > mount the snapshot. > But when i'm not able to mount it, how can it be backuped (from the host's point of view) ? > > > Bernd I suppose you could create the snapshot and then use 'dd' to create a bit-level image of the LV. -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer at alteeve.com AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org