You do it on per vm basis.  Right now my vm's are mounted NFS from a netapp with one volume / vm.  That way I can do a snap create or snap restore to recover any vm.

I do have one env that is using lvm for the volume manager and it works the same, just issue a differnt create snapshot.

Richard

--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Xenserver backups
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 1:36 PM
> that covers all of them? or just per
> vm?
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Richard Daggett<ssgdaggett@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > This is what I am doing for my xen vm's currently and
> so far I have not seen any issues with it.
> >
> > I enable sysrq on the vm
> >
> > xm sysrq <DomU> s
> > xm pause <DomU>
> > create xnapshot
> > xm unpause <DomU>
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > --- On Tue, 6/30/09, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Xenserver backups
> >> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> >> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 8:53 AM
> >> I am still looking at a way to keep
> >> backups live of my virtual servers
> >> and i have a backups server planned but the
> question is
> >> backing up the
> >> VM's
> >>
> >> The main question here is while running xenserver
> can i use
> >> rsync to
> >> keep the directory where the VM's live in sync
> with my
> >> backup server..
> >> at least once daily? via combination of snapshot
> or
> >> somesuch
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock,
> will
> >> prevent you from
> >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit
> the
> >> snooze button.
> >>
> >> Stephen
> >>
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