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Restore Xen VM from LVM Snapshot Backups

Thanks to Linux Sysadmin Blog for this story

What’s the use of backups if you can’t restore from them?

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In the previous post on “Backup Xen with LVM and Rsnapshot” we worked on creating backups of Xen (guest/domain) VMs with LVM, and here we’ll cover the process of restoring from these backups.
What is covered here:

  1. Restoring specific files or directories
  2. Doing “bare-metal” type of restore. We will re-create the VM from our rsnapshot backups.

Restore Process:

1.) Restoring specific files or directories only

Read the entire article at its source

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