Always do "zpool export" for easier and/or more reliable recovery?
mo' asked: Setting up a new (zfs-on-linux) setup with a zpool as data storage (not for system) I would like to prepare myself for the worst case as far as …
kvm/libvirt backup: how to ensure a consistent fs during online blockcommit?
muffel asked: I want to create online backups of a KVM Windows 10 virtual machine that is managed by libvirt. I have the qemu agent setup in the guest. If …
QEMU QMP How to find device to use drive_backup?
PoPNicoW asked: I would like to use backup_drive command to copy disks and their snapshot in one image. Unfortunately, each time i use the command : virsh qemu-monitor-command VM_NAME –hmp …
Large mysql dump pipe to s3
John W. Nesk asked: Is there any problem in doing this with lots of data? mysqldump … | gzip | s3cmd put – s3://bucket/file.sql.gz The MySQL dump is about 100GB …
Backing up a MySQL database via ZFS snapshots
Andy Shulman asked: I’ve found a number of sites talking about doing exactly this, but I’m missing a few important details. The general steps are Run FLUSH TABLES WITH READ …
Backup of KVM raw-images
fume-shroom asked: ` Hi,guys! I’m running qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.355.0.1.el6 on CentOS 6.3 using raw images for my virtual machines. Is there any way to safely backup guests, without stopping them? I’ve tried …
Backup of running KVM qcow2 VPS
Bosco D'mello asked: I want a robust method of taking backup of KVM VPS of qcow2 file, while running. After searching for a long time I found that we can …
Qemu Proxmox VM – Network access to guests for BackupPC backups
Danyright asked: Environment I rent a dedicated server from OVH and installed Proxmox 3.3 (which is based on Debian 6 Wheezy) in order to create and manage multiple Virtual Machines …
dd unable to write to tape drive
fukawi2 asked: I’m trying to dump our online backups to tape; for obvious reasons I want to encrypt the data on the tapes, so to write to the tape I …
Is this a reasonable way to setup backups for security? Can it be improved?
ReadWriteCode asked: On the machine being backed up: Create limited privilege account on a production Linux VM with content to backup. Account would have access to a single direct [e.g. …