[sheepdog-users] Snashot and backup

[Liu Yuan]

On 12/07/2012 03:33 PM, Valerio Pachera wrote:
> Till now I used lvm to give block device to the guests.
> To backup volumes, I usualy:
> - turn off the guest
> - create an lvm snapshot
> - restart the guest
> - copy the snapshot by dd

One more notice, with Sheepfs, you can directly 'dd' the snapshots out
of cluster to your NAS device, to save the unnecessary conversion.

Thanks,
Yuan