On Monday 2017-11-20 14:41:06 Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > I'm going to use Bacula for the first time. I have a virtual server > running on 10 KVM. Is it a problem if I back up all of them with > Bacula? I have Qcow2 disk images. I want to backup these disk images > just like a file. > > Is this a problem ?
It's a problem but not the problem with bacula. You need to make sure that the data on the virtual machine's file systems is in a consistent state. There are several options here (even taking files from outside of the virtual machine) but in my opinion the best option is to simply treat the virtual machine like the real one and put the bacula-fd inside the virtual machine as usual. That simplifies things by a lot and also makes it easier to manage, monitor, browse and restore files etc. Unless you really don't want that owner of the VM knows that you are backing up his files or for some reason you don't want to run backup agent inside the VM, I don't see the point of not doing it the safe (as in data consistency) and easy way. -- Josip Deanovic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
