Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 05/10/11 17:37, Digimer wrote: > On 05/10/2011 11:35 AM, Bart Coninckx wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I plan to use a dual primary setup for Xen DomUs. The DRBD devices are >> created on top of LVM LVs. >> Before, I used to do this on top of iSCSI devices and for backup I just >> dd-ed the snapshotted LVM device after the DomU was saved (and thus >> temporarely down). >> >> >> When I would follow this strategy with this LVM-DRBD dual primary setup, >> I will have more than likely the DRBD metadata in the dd dump >> (complicating restores). >> >> Is there anything I can do do have a "clean" backup of the Xen DomU when >> it is saved and when the LV underneath the DRBD device is snapshotted? >> >> thx! > > If you use CLVM (clustered LVM), then snapshotting won't work from the > dom0 level. I deal with this by temporarily attaching a small LV to the > domU and using it as the snapshot partition within the domU itself, and > then rsync (or dd) out the data to the backup server. > Hi, not using CLVM (no need to). I don't quite get your setup: you give the snapshot command within the DomU? Maybe I should specify that I use Windows DomUs as well, so no LVM available there. Cheers, B.