Complete backup of Linux install

[Stuart Jansen]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:49 -0700, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 13:17 -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> > Xen?  Are you referring to this Xen:
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen_(virtual_machine_monitor)
> 
> Main site:
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
> 
> You could do a file backed VM and make snapshots of the file as you need
> to.  Restoring a whole system would be as easy as `cp sys1.backup sys1`.
> Ubiquitous Xen is going to make things sweet for sysadmins.

I doubt it'll be that perfect. For example, I highly doubt that you can
achieve database integrity without involving the database software in
the process. (Migrating a running system is a different story, that is
possible if done correctly.)

-- 
Stuart Jansen              e-mail/jabber: sjansen at buscaluz.org
                           google talk:   stuart.jansen at gmail.com
:0                         # copy & paste for your convenience
* ^From:.*sjansen@
/dev/null                  # /ignore sjansen!*@*
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://plug.org/pipermail/plug/attachments/20051121/ee6a9ce3/attachment.bin