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Introduction
This is a quick HOWTO on packing up a Xen guest config file and sparse disk image.
The Details
I'm assuming we have a /xen directory. So change your directory to /xen. The guest we will be archiving is called server-base
- Create a directory to store everything in
> mkdir server-base
- Copy then Xen guest config file.
> cp /etc/xen/server-base server-base/
- Copy the disk image.
> cp server-base.img server-base/
- Now lets tar everything up
> tar -Scvzf server-base.tgz server-base
- Remove our temp directory.
>rm -rf server-base
Conclusion
These are some quick notes. They should help out people who don't use tar everyday.
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