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On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey writes: |
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>> On Monday 12 April 2010 17:17:52 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> > Unless something is broken, I hardly ever reboot. |
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>> How do you take backups? |
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> I do my backups from the running system, not from a live-cd. I create an |
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> LVM snapshot of the partition, and backup with use rdiff-backup. his way |
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> it does not matter if the partition itself is being modified during the |
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> backup. |
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> Wonko |
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Is there a good doc to read on this sort of setup? It sounds like what |
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I was thinking I might need. |
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This new system I built has RAID1 for Gentoo and backing up data from |
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a RAID0 in the same box. The RAID0 is for running multiple VMs. The |
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VMs are likely to be running 24/7 and I want to catch backups of them |
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pretty often, hourly possibly, and put them on the RAID1. I then have |
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another RAID1 machine where I'll backup everything on this RAID1. |
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The deal is I cannot stop the VMs from doing their work so I need some |
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way of getting them backed up while they are live. |
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- Mark |
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