31 Mar
2012
31 Mar
'12
6:37 p.m.
On 03/31/2012 01:39 PM, Dale Amon wrote:
I need to define a procedure for last resort disaster recovery from an incremental file level backup of the root partition (and any others that are critical.)
Now it is easy enough to create a raw virtual disk with dd, then to losetup and do a cfdisk and mkfs, then mount it and rsync the backup onto it.
It sounds like you want to use the features of libguestfs, possibly via the command line program 'virt-rescue'; see http://libguestfs.org for more details about what this can let you do. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org