Re: [ovirt-users] schedule a VM backup in ovirt 3.5

> > Can I shedule a VM backup with Ovirt Manager GUI. If possible, Pls let > me > > know. > > Not at this moment, and this is not planned for the future, afaik. > > Thanks for the direct Answer. Why 's that? Can you guys go ahead without* EASY BACKUP Solution*, When other Products like VMWare are around? VMware provides a utility with similar functionality to oVirt's backup

> Did you play with the other SDK examples etc suggested during this thread? > > May I suggest that this is best done as a plugin/contribution to a backup > solution, not standalone. I guess most sites with more than a few hosts > use > some such solution - FOSS (amanda/bacula/backuppc/etc) or proprietary > (netbackup/backupexec/acronis/etc) - and backup of VMs (ovirt or other) > should be handled in this scope. > > I have used bacula before. My question is how to backup VMs running in Ovirt? When I can't pinpoint a VM Image? Will I have to take Whole storage such as NSF, ISCSI or SAN (i.e - FC) Them, How to restore? Could you pls answer? Using the backup API[1] you should be capable of scripting such a task.

> Searching the net I manage to find [1] and [2], which might be what > you want. Note that I never tried any of them myself. > > [1] https://github.com/ovirt-china/vm-backup-scheduler > [2] https://github.com/wefixit-AT/oVirtBackup > > Thank you very much for the above links? -- cat /etc/motd Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya http://www.theravadanet.net/ http://www.siyabas.lk/sinhala_how_to_install.html - Download Sinhala Fonts _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users