Subject: Re: [vserver] OCFS2 and VServer
From: Mike O'Connor <vserver@pineview.net>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 22:31:27 +0930

Hi Raoul

In our current systems we do not have a remote storage system, so the 
backup is done on the machines running the guests.

Mike

Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote:
> Mike O'Connor wrote:
>   
>> NFS is the trusty fall-back, my main issue is how to create backups on
>> the NAS's. Our current systems backup via cron, this causes large
>> amounts of I/O load each time a backup is performed.
>>     
>
> where exactly do you take the backup? on the nas itself (which is the
> nfs server) or on the vserver host which runs the vserver clients?
> (or inside the vservers *g*)
>
> would there be a possibility to work with xfs snapshots or so?
>
> cheers,
> raoul
>