[Gllug] virt-p2v vs tar

[- Tethys]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:

> Also depends on what you are using the LVM snapshotting to protect against.
> This will allow you to back out from immediate problems after an update,
> it doesn't always work like that - sometimes you only realise that the
> update screwed things a little while later, by then the users have been
> doing work and if you return the programs to the previous state you will
> also wind back user data.
>
> The users may not appreciate that.

True, but in this case we were talking about snapshotting and tar as a
replacement for virt-p2v, rather than for backups. I guess the subject
should probably have been changed when things started veering
off-topic...

Tet

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