[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt Open Source Backup solution?
Strahil <hunter86_bg(a)yahoo.com> writes:
Another option is to create a snapshot, backup the snapahot and
merge
the disks (delete the snapshot actually).
Sadly that option doesn't work with Databases, as you might inyerrupt
a transaction and leave the DB in inconsistent state.
Yet another reason to do it from inside the VM.
What I do (on systems that have a running database) is to run a "flush"
operation to sync the database to disk, and then from within the flush
operation I create an LVM snapshot, and then I backup off the snapshot.
If I'm not running a database, then I just create the snapshot directly.
Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov
-derek
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