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.

A few weeks back I had my first attempt at recovering files deleted on an ext3 partition. The operation was not trivial but in the end it was successful. I’ll recount a little about what I learned, and share some resources and tips.