> I have not tested writes yet and doubt I will have time to get to that this > week.
To show drawbacks of LVM snapshots, you can use something like: # dd if=/dev/urandom of=tmp.raw bs=1M inside the VM during backup. LVM snapshot will most likely run full, and is very slow: # time vmtar .... ERROR: incomplete read detected Command exited with non-zero status 255 6.13user 144.59system 21:37.43elapsed 11%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 568maxresident)k 129851856inputs+0outputs (0major+180minor)pagefaults 0swaps Live backup works as expected: # time vzdump ... INFO: transferred 68719 MB in 560 seconds (122 MB/s) INFO: Finished Backup of VM 40000 (00:09:20) INFO: Backup job finished successfully real 9m20.527s Note: it is more than 2 times faster _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
