On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Lukas Laukamp <lukas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have backed up the data within the machine with partimage and fsarchiver. > But it would be greate to have a better way than doing this over a live > system. make no mistake, the absolutely best way is from within the VM. It's the most consistent, safe and efficient method. Doing it "from the outside" is attractive, but it's a hack, and in some cases you have to jump through several hoops to make it safe. -- Javier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html