[PVE-User] taking advantage of the lvm snapshot
Tonči Stipičević
tonci at suma-informatika.hr
Sat Jul 7 00:05:43 CEST 2012
Hello to all,
I'm running pve2.1 cluster with shared lvm2 storage (nexenta) and am
very satisfied so far .
scheduled (and manual) backups are working very good and backup files
are copied to another shared nfs storage.
So when we have to return to the backup first we have to restore the
archive what could last depending on the amount of data .
2nd.. every backup takes time .. but when we make backup of the VM that
are on the lvm volumes then 1st step is snapshoting the logical VMID
volume which makes very useful quasi-backup of the VM.
We are using it to make archive of the VM in the same time the original
VM is running which makes zero-downtime .. which is also very very good.
But using this backed-up VM again means restoring it again which also
takes time.
So my question would be whether this snapshot (i.e. 101-s) could be used
to make copy (delta-replica) to another-equivalent logical volume (i.e.
201 ) on the second storage so that this 201-VM is ready to run
without restoring the archive. So VM201 will always be down so that
logvolume cannot be locked ... (Am I right?)
I hope dd could do that job but dd cannot transfer only changed blocks
next time copying is done ? or it can ?
So my idea would be to make fast cloning of VMs on the another storage
that are usable right away ! is there any scenario to achieve this ?
This could be something called offline-VM-cloning (for me it is not
necessary to achieve drbd features )
Since we had snapshot that is done in moment it would very useful if we
could transfer only changes over to the 201 volume ( after the initial
full replication )
Thank you very much in advance for your attention
and help
srdačan pozdrav / best regards
Tonči Stipičević, dipl. ing. elektr.
SUMA Informatika d.o.o.
Badalićeva 27 10000 Zagreb
fax: 01 5560007
mob: 091 1234003
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