[Users] Backup functionality via Acronis and extracting snapshots

[Itamar Heim]

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

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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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>>
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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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>>>
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