Top posting Hi, just wrote http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Hosted_Engine_Backup_and_Restore and currently testing this. Xie Chao, Groten Ryan: since you already explored this kind of procedure can you help commenting and / or sharing your experience here? Adding infra, since we have Hosted Engine running in oVirt production and they may be interested too. Il 05/09/2014 11:23, Xie, Chao ha scritto:

Hi, Ryan

Thanks for replying. I know your meaning and engine-backup command. But I have some questions with your way: “If the hosted-engine needs to be restored for some reason I will just recreate the OS and restore the engine database”.

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?

*发件人:*Groten, Ryan [mailto:Ryan.Groten@stantec.com] *发送时间:*2014年9月5日4:29 *收件人:*Xie, Chao/谢 超; users@ovirt.org *主题:*RE: How to backup/restore the rhevm-VM in hosted-engine ?

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.

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.

Check this link for documentation:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualizat...

*From:*users-bounces@ovirt.org <mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org> [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] *On Behalf Of *xiec.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com <mailto:xiec.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> *Sent:* September-03-14 9:54 PM *To:* users@ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> *Subject:* [ovirt-users] How to backup/restore the rhevm-VM in hosted-engine ?

Hi,All

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 *NOT* health but as below:

====================

Status up-to-date : False

Hostname : 193.168.195.248

Host ID : 1

Engine status : unknown stale-data

Score : 2400

Local maintenance : False

Host timestamp : 1409743461

Extra metadata (valid at timestamp):

metadata_parse_version=1

metadata_feature_version=1

timestamp=1409743461 (Wed Sep 3 07:24:21 2014)

host-id=1

score=2400

maintenance=False

state=EngineUp

=============================

So are there some proper way to backup the rhevm-vm?

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