Re: Suggestions on building VM disks from scratch

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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@xxxxxxxxxx    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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