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