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