Live Backup

Proxmox VE

• http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Backup_and_Restore

LVM snapshot

• http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/snapshot_command.html

Bacula

• http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=application_specific_backups

libvirt blockpull

• virsh snapshot-create-as to create the snapshot
• cp myvm.qcow2 myvm-backup.qcow2 to copy off the now read-only backing image file
• virsh blockpull to merge the base and snapshot images together into a single image again

• Is this functionality only available in qemu 1.1?
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2012-August/msg00086.html
• http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/first-look-virtual-machine-online-disk-snapshots-coming-fedora-18
• http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/live-backup-with-external-disk-snapshots-and-libvirts-blockpull/

MySQL

• http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtrabackup
• http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/40784/live-backup-without-lock
• http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/16764-Backup-MySQL-database