On 07/07/2012 01:38 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
> On 07/07/2012 07:25 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:16 AM, David Sommerseth
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> On 07/06/2012 02:23 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> By the way, if you skip using AHCI and just program the bios
>>>>>> for IDE, you don't even have to use an f6 disk to install XP.
>>>>>> No sign of drivers doing XP in yet. Although the day will come.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Great letter. Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> You didn't notice any performance issues with virtualized IDE versus
>>>> SCSI?
>>>
>>>
>>> IDE and SCSI emulation is not going to impress you on performance.
>>> Using
>>> virtio for disk access may improve the performance, and the Windows
>>> drivers
>>> should be available here:
>>
>> David, I belive that Todd is using "dump" to back up the
>> virtualization server, not the virtualization guests. The "dump"
>> comman dwould be completely useless for a Windows partition, whether
>> FAT32 or NTFS.
>>
>>> <http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers>
>>
>> Now, if you have to back up virtualized Windows *guest* hosts, that's
>> a whole other set of adventures.
>>
>
> I am backing up the following:
>
> $ df
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/luks-xx 946513204 286868552 611564524 32% /
>
> KVM, VM's are all just files on this partition.
Here is the report from the end of a backup I just finished -- includes
and entire backup (not incremental), compression and decryption:
DUMP: Volume 1 took 1:21:16
DUMP: Volume 1 transfer rate: 47271 kB/s
DUMP: Volume 1 288102550kB uncompressed, 230493747kB compressed, 1.250:1
DUMP: 288102550 blocks (281350.15MB) on 1 volume(s)
DUMP: finished in 4876 seconds, throughput 59085 kBytes/sec
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jul 7 13:51:23 2012
DUMP: Date this dump completed: Sat Jul 7 15:12:44 2012
DUMP: Average transfer rate: 47271 kB/s
DUMP: Wrote 288102550kB uncompressed, 230493747kB compressed, 1.250:1
DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
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