Re: [libvirt-users] Suggestions on building VM disks from scratch
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.
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Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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