[Users] Backup functionality via Acronis and extracting snapshots

[David Wilson]

Thank you for your reply Itamar.

 >you can export a VM to an NFS export domain, then back it up.
 >you can stop the VM and backup the data from NFS/Block directly.

Ok, am I am guessing that for automated backups I should be able to 
script this using vdsClient?

 >in 3.1, you should be able to live snapshot, then backup the snapshot 
from storage
Unfortunately I've not had success with the live snapshots. My message 
with subject "oVirt live snapshot problem" to users at ovirt.org provides 
more information about the problem.
How would one go about backing up the snapshot from storage?




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On 06/18/2012 03:36 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 06/18/2012 03:41 PM, David Wilson wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I am looking for a simple way to backup guest images.
>> What is the recommended/best method to copy vm snapshots from oVirt? I
>> am hoping to copy to an NFS share (export domain) if possible? From what
>> I've seen it is possible when using qemu-img when not using oVirt.... is
>> it possible to do something similar with oVirt?
>
> you can export a VM to an NFS export domain, then back it up.
> you can stop the VM and backup the data from NFS/Block directly.
> in 3.1, you should be able to live snapshot, then backup the snapshot 
> from storage
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Get important Linux and industry-related news at: facebook.com/dcdata
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>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> David Wilson
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>>
>>
>> On 06/15/2012 03:47 PM, David Wilson wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> A quick check up on this one? Has anyone used Acronis with oVirt?
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> David Wilson
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>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/13/2012 06:57 AM, David Wilson wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> First off well done to the oVirt contributors - it is an excellent
>>>> product!
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone tested Acronis Backup and Recovery with oVirt?
>>>> I am looking for a reliable way to backup guest oVirt disk images,
>>>> config and state. So far I've tried the popular script by Daniel
>>>> Berteaud 'virt-backup.pl' which works very well for our standard KVM
>>>> systems but I found that I had to disable libvirtd's SASL
>>>> authentication which caused oVirt to lose connectivity to the node
>>>> and oVirt to fence the node.
>>>> I thought I'd try a manual 'virsh save' but that causes oVirt to
>>>> believe that the guest has gone down which causes the guest to be
>>>> automatically migrated (I am running 2 nodes).
>>>>
>>>> What experience have you had with backing up guests? I am not sure if
>>>> Acronis is the best way forward?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> David Wilson
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>>
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