![]() Once the export is complete, you can move these files where ever you want, to restore, you simply right click on your pool and go to Import select the file from disk, follow the wizard and the VMS will be started ( I am not sure what happens with any kind of MAC address collisions here if the same VM you exported is currently running) Exporting a live VM I told the export process to ‘verify’ the exported files, which added A LONG time to the process, be prepared for this the progress is displayed in the Logs tab for the pool. you can conveniently do an export of multiple stopped VMs. Xen Center allows you to export a VM, which you later import: First, shut down your VM, right click on it and go to Export and follow the steps in the wizard to put the export on your local drive. This method is something that would work well for backing up defined templates to an offsite location, but would not work well for saving a full running VM in a way that could be restored from an offsite location. ![]() This method requires you to stop a VM first, which means that it does not work well for VMs which are already in production, and the method is not a viable “backup” solution for us, but I explain it here to make the distinction between the different types of exporting. The concept is, we want to be able to take a VM, which is currently running and get a backup of some kind which can then be restored at a later point.įirst I will explain what I have found to be the way that Xen Center currenlty allows, I dont know what the ‘Best Practice’ is suggested for this procedure, I couldnt find it from searching and so I explored the options available within Xen Center and at the command line Exporting (stopping a VM first) This started when defining the procedure for how to backup VMs ‘off site’ in a way that would later allow us to restore them, should some sort of unrecoverable error occur. Xen Center – import from exported XVA file for restoring – does not create a new VM Building a backup procedure for Xen Center
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