From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nico Kadel-Garcia Subject: Re: Hot backup vs (local) live migration Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:11:41 +0100 Message-ID: <46A74C0D.3040005@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Claris Castillo Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-users@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Claris Castillo wrote: > Hi, this is the third time I post this question to the list but I have not > received any response. > This is similar to backing up an LVM snapshot of a live system. With many operating systems, there may be operations occurring in paging that have not yet been committed to the disk. Unless you can shut down things like databases and make sure all their content has been committed, you should not rely on such a snapshot for backup purposes. > By the way I tried doing local live migration and I got *several * error > messages. I am not sure if the errors > have to do with the fact that it is not possible to perform a local live > migration or some other technical issues > I can solve if I look at it. > > > I would appreciate any suggestions/advice in this regard. > cc > > What were your error messages, and how did you try to do the live migration?