[Gllug] Back-out plans on Debian/Redhat?

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Sun Mar 8 12:03:19 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 07:36:52AM +0000, Matthew King wrote:
> Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> writes:
> 
> > virt-p2v is a live CD, so you have to boot into it, which requires
> > taking the system offline while the P2V happens.  This isn't a hard
> > technical requirement (you can use snapshots directly, and VMWare
> > probably can do it live with some fancy tool), but it's what virt-p2v
> > supports for now.
> 
> You can do it live yourself with such fancy tools as tar.

Well, not if you want a consistent snapshot, but you feel free to use
whatever tools you think work best.

Rich.

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