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<div>To support Michael here (i think he knows the script i sent around already) having a builtin backup would be much nicer.</div>
<div>The current procedure (ovirt 3.5) involves not only snapshotting and exporting, but also a clone before the export which puts massive unnecessary load on the environment.</div>
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<div>We have developers who can potentially develop such a backup procedure, however, we can not do this alone.</div>
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<div>Do you guys think we could do something like that through crowfunding or who would be willing to participate in something like that ?</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org">users-bounces@ovirt.org</a>> on behalf of Donny Davis<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thursday 30 July 2015 23:20<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk"<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>users<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [ovirt-users] VM Live Backup<br>
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<p dir="ltr">You could write a script to interface with the api that creates a snapshot and then exports or copies that to a backup nfs share.... And then run that on a cron job....
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 30, 2015 5:18 PM, "Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk" <<a href="mailto:michael@schefczyk.net">michael@schefczyk.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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Dear All,<br>
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One feature that I am really missing in oVirt is a foolproof (i.e., in a way that even I will be able to implement) scheduled (cron would be good) live VM backup that outputs ideally qcow2 files per disk plus an xml-configuration file that one could upload
to a regular KVM host, in case that should be required. As far as I understand, that is not yet on the roadmap, correct? For my plain SOHO KVM hosts, I am using a script to do just that. While I almost never need the backups - files with a human readable text
name which I know how to use on any freshly installed KVM host in case of a crash emergency -, I feel better keeping them available for some time period.<br>
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Michael<br>
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