I’ve been experiencing some issues with regard to backing up my Xen user domains. As I investigated the issues I once again found the lack of documentation to be frustrating, especially about such a fundamentally important issue as backups. There is simply no documentation on how to setup enterprise level backups for Xen. So here on some thoughts on what I see as the state of things, and where they could go form here to get better.

I’ve been using Xen for a little while now and while there are many aspects I like there are a few that are troubling. I’ve been wanting to write up some tutorials on using Xen but before that can happen I need to feel comfortable recommending Xen as a virtualization solution. At the moment I’m not sure I can do that, partially because of the issues I’ve encountered but mostly because those issues do not seem to be acknowledged or discussed in any meaningful way. That is perhaps the most troubling thing of all.