[ClusterLabs] Antw: Re: snapshots in a clvm environment - some questions for proceeding

Lentes, Bernd bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de
Wed Mar 1 17:13:24 EST 2017


> 
> Actually that's what we are doing, but at some point in the past I had ruined
> the directory with the VM images (user error). THe problem then was that you
> need a running VM to restore files inside the VM. This is when you would like
> to have a crash-consistent backup image of your VM. However I found no working
> solution yet (we have VM images hosted on OCFS2, hosted on a cLVM LV).
> 
> Regards,
> Ulrich
> 
>> 

With OCFS2 you could snapshot (i think they call it reflink) the Image file.

Bernd 

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