http://www.calvatia.com/pages/ Recent bookmarks posted to Scuttle 60 http://serverfault.com/questions/27397/sync-lvm-snapshots-to-backup-server I have a number of Xen virtual machines running on a number of Linux servers. These VMs store their disk images in Linux LVM volumes with device names along the lines of /dev/xenVG/SERVER001OS and so on. I'd like to take regular backups of those disk ima robdyke Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:48:05 +0000 linux lvm sysadmin https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HighlyAvailableiSCSITarget In this tutorial we will set up a highly available server providing iSCSI targets to iSCSI initiators. Should a server become unavailable, services provided by our cluster will continue to be available to client systems. robdyke Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:47:36 +0000 iscsi linux storage sysadmin http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html Following on from the previous example we now want to use the extra space in the "ops" volume group to make a database backup every evening. To ensure that the data that goes onto the tape is consistent we use an LVM snapshot logical volume. A snapsh robdyke Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:41:42 +0000 linux sysadmin http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/consistent-backup-linux-logical-volume-manager-snapshots.html LVM is an implementation of a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel. The biggest advantage is that LVM provides the ability to make a snapshot of any logical volume. robdyke Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:40:57 +0000 linux sysadmin http://backdrift.org/efficient-xen-backups-using-lvm-and-rsnapshot Here I will describe how to implement a backup scheme that I have found very robust, efficient and reliable. It enables automated backups of Xen virtual machines that each reside on individual LVM volumes using a utility called rsnapshot (which is based o robdyke Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:40:17 +0000 linux sysadmin http://rsnapshot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rsnapshot/rsnapshot/ LVM backup using rsnapshot robdyke Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:39:44 +0000 linux sysadmin