[Veritas-bu] Backing up XEN

[Tristan Ball]

We use both the Citrix XEN and opensource XEN, and back up both using 
either the normal Netbackup Client, installed inside the VM's (for 
Windows VMs, "Tier 1" linux, or VM's larger than about 50G of disk). For 
everything else we have an inhouse rsync system that copies the server 
to a staging machine, which is then itself backed up by NBU. Mostly that 
just saves us on NB client licensees, although historically in gave us a 
way to backup systems where it was difficult to get the NBU client to 
run, like older versions of debian.

The biggest issue is managing the performance - if all the VM backups 
kick off in parallel, not only do the VM's themselves take a belting, 
but the backend ISCSI disk array becomes loaded to the point of being 
unresponsive. Not an insurmountable issue. :-)

Regards,
     T.

On 4/17/2009 8:38 PM, Fredrik wrote:
> Has anybody out there tried to backup SUSE XEN virtuell server??
> And if. How do you do it?
>
> Fredrik Dahlberg  - Backupadministrator
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