My physical server got hacked so my provider has shut down the server and booted it in Linux rescue mode. I've got full access to the file systems in Linux, however after hours of trying and searching I cannot find a way to get the VM's off of this server.
I would settle for anything, exporting the VM's, accessing their virtual drives to grab data etc..
Basically I have to re-install Xenserver on this physical server, however I want to get my data off of it first, but it seems without having Xenserver running you can't do any kind of export to save your VM's.
We do have a backup solution however I'm not 100% confident in it and wont know if it's worked until I've wiped this server clean and then restore the VM's to it.
Best Answer
You should be able to find it through:
It should be using lvm. Depending on the version and the state of the volumes, you may want to run:
In the above (I'm running KVM, so it'll be slightly different), there's two volume groups on two SCSI devices. We store ours on SAS01 so I'd run:
Which gives:
To get those off, I'd do:
You can also run it through gzip first but I don't think it saves network bandwith, just file storage space.