From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Lorimer Subject: Question about live backups Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:50:18 -0400 Message-ID: <48F36E3A.9090309@kmbc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kmbc.edu ([12.197.71.19]:49653 "EHLO mail.kmbc.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755652AbYJMPue (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:50:34 -0400 Received: from home.kmbc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.kmbc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F2ED47438 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:50:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.203] (laptop-slorimer.kmbc.edu [192.168.1.203]) by home.kmbc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB7214F76E for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:50:31 -0400 (EDT) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: KVM group, I've done some research into live backups, but haven't found a lot. I've also looked into snapshots, but as I understand it, those are not actually complete? I'm thinking in terms of disaster recovery - I'd like to make nightly backups of each of my VM's (including xml configs) so as to be able to roll them on a different server in case of failure,etc. but I can't really afford to shutdown the VM's during backups. I'm not running LVM. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Steve Lorimer