<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 5, 2017 7:27 PM, "Florian Nolden" <<a href="mailto:f.nolden@xilloc.com" target="_blank">f.nolden@xilloc.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail-m_8931438287226427971quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hallo everyone, </div><div><br></div><div>I would like to update my Ovirt installation but, before that I would like to create proper VM backups. Currently I try to automate the backups and I use the implementation of the following project.</div><div><a href="https://github.com/wefixit-AT/oVirtBackup" target="_blank">https://github.com/wefixit-AT/<wbr>oVirtBackup</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The main idea is to use the Ovirt-API to trigger a snapshot, create a new VM from the snapshot, delete the snapshot, export the vm to the export domain, delete the vm.</div><div><br></div><div>This process takes even with only a 20 GB vm disk 55 Minutes. I have now 21 VMs with average 30 GB HDD space, that would mean that the backup job runs 22 hours. </div><div><br></div><div>Is there something wrong with my setup? </div><div>Config? </div><div>Is there a better way to automate backups? </div><div>Is anyone else doing VM Exports as backup or are you just using snapshots? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Specs: </div><div>HA Cluster 3 Nodes each has:</div><div>2x 6x 2.96 GHz, 96 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD for CentOS7, 1 TB SSD VM-Storage (Gluster FS), 4x 1 GBit LAN Bond, 4x 1GBit SAN Bond (Gluster Network, connection to Backup NAS/ Export Domain)</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you are using Gluster I'd utilize geo-replication.</div><div>See <a href="https://github.com/sabose/ovirt-georep-backup">https://github.com/sabose/ovirt-georep-backup</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail-m_8931438287226427971quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ovirt 4.0.3 </div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'd upgrade. </div><div dir="auto">Y. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail-m_8931438287226427971quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>The script output: </div><div><div>Jan 05 14:12:16: Start backup for: wiki (20 GB)</div><div>Jan 05 14:12:17: Snapshot creation started ...</div><div>Jan 05 14:12:30: Snapshot created</div><div>Jan 05 14:12:40: Clone into VM started ...</div><div>Jan 05 14:36:37: Cloning finished</div><div>Jan 05 14:36:38: Snapshot deletion started ...</div><div>Jan 05 14:59:27: Snapshots deleted</div><div>Jan 05 14:59:28: Export started ...</div><div>Jan 05 15:07:09: Exporting finished</div><div>Jan 05 15:07:09: Delete cloned VM started ...</div><div>Jan 05 15:07:15: Cloned VM deleted</div><div>Jan 05 15:07:15: Duration: 55:0 minutes</div><div>Jan 05 15:07:15: VM exported as wiki_BACKUP_010516</div><div>Jan 05 15:07:15: Backup done for: wiki</div><div>Jan 05 15:07:15: All backups done</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Florain</div></div>
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