Re: backing up a xen-server

Am 04.02.25 um 08:56 schrieb Vanush "Misha" Paturyan:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 13:05, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Does it work to install the centos-client on a xen-server and use that
>> for backing up VMs from there?
> 
> When you say "xen-server" do you mean Dom0? If yes - then it really
> depends on what you use for disks for your DomUs (VMs).
> 
> I installed bacula-fd into each individual DomU (VM), instead of
> figuring out how to back up disk images for VMs (whatever they might
> be: over the years we've migrated from cow disks o LVs to dedicated
> RBD images within Ceph cluster. Imagine if I had to redo the bacula
> configuration every time this happened?)

good point

I am part of a project where 2 companies are merged, the other admin has 
that Xen-Server and uses Acronis in his VMs to dump stuff ...

A backup-client on the Xen-host would be a "complementary mechanism" ;-)

thanks