Yes exactly, that's the way. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ESGLinux Sent: Friday, 24 July 2009 10:33 p.m. To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: backup system for RHEL 2009/7/24 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey@xxxxxxxxxx> > For the Xen images made of partitions, you'd do: > > # dd if=/dev/sda? of=/backup/xen-backup-image.img bs=1M > > (where /dev/sda? is the partition which your > /etc/xen/<xen-config>:disk='phy:.....' refers to. > > Make sense? > Not really, Because the images are not in a partition, They are files. For example I have this: disk = [ "tap:aio:/home/images/NODE1.img,xvda,w" ] perhaps doing: dd if=/home/images/NODE1.img of=/backup/xen-backup-image.img bs=1M will work? ESG -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ========================================================== For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us online at tvnz.co.nz ========================================================== CAUTION: This e-mail and any attachment(s) contain information that is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s). This information is not to be used or stored by any other person and/or organisation. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
