Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Davies
Scott Ferguson wrote: > I don't know DeltaCopy It's an implementation of rsync for Windows Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/759pa9xpjj@news.

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 18:27, Chris Davies wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: >> One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up >> the files on the disk in that virtual machine. > > DeltaCopy on the Windows system and rsnapshot/rsync on the (Linux) > server. Works well for me. > > Chr

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler wrote: > One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up > the files on the disk in that virtual machine. DeltaCopy on the Windows system and rsnapshot/rsync on the (Linux) server. Works well for me. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Jon Dowland
A great question. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 07:32:22PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > A possibility that occurred to me is that I could make the disk used > by the virtual machine a raw image file on an LVM logical volume, > which I use the snapshot capability of to take a frozen snapshot of > the di

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On 13/06/12 21:19, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: ... One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up the files on the disk in that virtual machine. The best I can do is back up the entire file that represents the disk

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > Does Samba require you to  back of the security of Win7 down to the > point where it doesn't require Kerebos?  If I remember correctly all > that will be resolved once Samba 4 gets released. That I don't know. If it answers the question,

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a > VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I > have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel > version and for one

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Shane Johnson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler > wrote: >> I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a >> VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I >> have had the occasional gli

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > I currently run a necessary Windows 7 (Home Premium) installation in a > VirtualBox virtual machine on my Debian Unstable desktop.  Its OK, but I > have had the occasional glitch when Debian tries to upgrade by kernel > version and for one re