Can I use tape drive with XEN VPS / Guest oses?

Author: Vivek Gite Last updated: August 2, 2007 5 comments

Q. I’ve CentOS 5.0 server running XEN kernel. VPS Guest is Linux distribution. How do I use tape drive with XEP Guest os?

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A. You can’t use character devices such as tape drives in Xen guests. This is limitation of Xen. It doesn’t have the ability to export character devices to multiple guests oses.

However for backup you can use rsync or ftp server or NAS server.

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DeBaan Aug 7, 2007 @ 20:17
This is not, strictly speaking, true.
Xen, if running in HVM mode, has the ability to export pci devices to specific domU’s. You could, then, export a (physical) scsi controller pci device to a domU; then, use it as you normally would.
Or, perhaps rmt is for you (the remote tape device).
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Anil Jan 1, 2009 @ 8:14
Hi
How can I take backup of xen vps using rsync ?
Regards
Anil
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DLS Apr 16, 2014 @ 18:47

rsync -a --delete --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys --exclude=/proc --exclude=/tmp remoteserver.example.com:/ /path/to/backup/destination/

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DLS Apr 16, 2014 @ 18:49
PS:
http://rimuhosting.com/howto/rsyncbackup.jsp
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DLS Apr 16, 2014 @ 18:51
PSS:
http://rimuhosting.com/howto/rsync.jsp
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