Re: [Users] backups
On 11/27/2013 4:24 AM, Martijn Grendelman wrote:
The problem with snapshot-based backups is, that they are usually
only
crash-consistent, meaning that they contain the state of a system's
disks as they would be if you pulled the power plug on a server. If
you restore a system from this type of backup, you would see file
system recovery happening at the first boot, and you risk data loss
from -for example- database servers.
The work-around for this is to SSH into the guest first, put the
database into backup mode(maybe run sync a time or two to flush out as
much from RAM as possible), take the snap shot, ssh back in to resume
the database, backup the snap, delete the snap.