[Borgbackup] best way to back up running KVM images

[Marian Beermann]

With virtual machines you want at least crash-consistency for your
backups, i.e. you should snapshot the disk images. qcow2 supports this.
Snapshotting the FS the disk images are on may / may not be equivalent.
Probably not equivalent.

If you are running databases inside VMs I'd recommend to additionally
use the DB-specific dump tools.

Cheers, Marian

Am 12.12.18 um 16:22 schrieb Eric S. Johansson:
> I have a machine running 3 KVM guests.  I can't stop or suspend them for
> a backup (one is a domain controller). I am on zfs so  I may be able to
> do a suspend operation / snapshot trick.  I've also seen a clone, backup
> the original , then merge back in the clone/ trick as well but I must be
> missing something because I never got that to work. 
> 
> So, any suggestions?
>