[Users] Backup functionality via Acronis and extracting snapshots

[Itamar Heim]

On 06/19/2012 09:13 AM, David Wilson wrote:
> 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?

either this, or copying the images directly from one of the nodes 
already connected to the storage by ovirt engine.

>
>  >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?

same as a regular vm... via command line for now.

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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
>>
>>>
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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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>>>> 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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