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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Hi, Ryan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> Thanks for replying. I know your meaning and engine-backup command. But I have some questions with your way: “</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue">If
the hosted-engine needs to be restored for some reason I will just recreate the OS and restore the engine database</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> Do you recreate the Guest using original host? And the host needn’t to be fresh installed and just excute hosted-engine –deployed again, we can recreate another OS?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:宋体">发件人<span lang="EN-US">:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:宋体"> Groten, Ryan [mailto:Ryan.Groten@stantec.com]
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:宋体">发送时间<span lang="EN-US">:</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:宋体"> 2014</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:宋体">年<span lang="EN-US">9</span>月<span lang="EN-US">5</span>日<span lang="EN-US">
4:29<br>
</span><b>收件人<span lang="EN-US">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Xie, Chao/</span>谢 超<span lang="EN-US">; users@ovirt.org<br>
</span><b>主题<span lang="EN-US">:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> RE: How to backup/restore the rhevm-VM in hosted-engine ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue">In 3.4 there is a backup/restore utility called engine-backup. You can use this to backup the RHEV-M database(s) as well as restore. Of course
this won’t backup the Guest OS itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue">My DR strategy is to simply copy off these engine-backup files to another location. If the hosted-engine needs to be restored for some reason
I will just recreate the OS and restore the engine database.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue">Check this link for documentation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.4/html/Administration_Guide/chap-Backups.html">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.4/html/Administration_Guide/chap-Backups.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org">users-bounces@ovirt.org</a> [<a href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org">mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:xiec.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com">xiec.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> September-03-14 9:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org">users@ovirt.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ovirt-users] How to backup/restore the rhevm-VM in hosted-engine ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,All<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> As the mauual, I can’t find anyway to backup/restore the rhevm-VM in the hosted-engine. The I just try to backup the storage of rhevm-VM (using cp –prf to make a copy of folder). Then I make some change and
replace the origin RHEVM-VM content with my backup folder (of course I shutdown the rhevm-vm first). At last the vm can be up,but the status is
<b>NOT</b> health but as below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">====================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Status up-to-date : False<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hostname : 193.168.195.248<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Host ID : 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Engine status : unknown stale-data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Score : 2400<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Local maintenance : False<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Host timestamp : 1409743461<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Extra metadata (valid at timestamp):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> metadata_parse_version=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> metadata_feature_version=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> timestamp=1409743461 (Wed Sep 3 07:24:21 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> host-id=1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> score=2400<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> maintenance=False<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> state=EngineUp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">=============================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So are there some proper way to backup the rhevm-vm?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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