[Users] backups

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Thu Nov 28 09:34:13 UTC 2013


On 11/27/2013 10:41 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 06:28:26 AM you wrote:
>> Yes and no. Backups of the VM for disaster recover purposes, and regular
>> *separate* data backups done from within the VM.
>
>
> NB - quiescising/ windows stylle VSS for vm backups is desirable to ensure DB
> tables etc aren't corrupted on restore, but it isn't a replacement for data
> backups.

just a btw that the qemu-guest-agent if installed on a windows guest is 
supposed to interact with VSS during live snapshot.




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