You can mount the NFS outside oVirt and backup to it&nbsp;<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1624462305474"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1624462305660">Also, you can use pacemaker (if the NFS is a linux server) to ensure that failover is immediate and with NFS v3 the recovery of the clients should be fast enough to avoid troubles.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1624462396463"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1624462396668"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1624462396884">Best Regards,</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1624462403949">Strahil Nikolov<br> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 11:51, jb</div><div>&lt;jonbae77@gmail.com&gt; wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div dir="ltr">Hello community,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We use a NFS export domain for full backups. Sometimes I have to restart <br></div><div dir="ltr">the NFS file server, but when I just restart that server, without doing <br></div><div dir="ltr">anything in oVirt (I guess normally I should put the domain in <br></div><div dir="ltr">maintenance mode), it can happen that hosts and VMs a crashing.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I had one time even the issue, that after a crash one XFS file system on <br></div><div dir="ltr">one host got damage and I had to fix that.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My though was now, because I make only one time a week a VM full backup, <br></div><div dir="ltr">I only mount the export domain in this time.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Is there an easy way to do this, with the API? Or would you have a other <br></div><div dir="ltr">hint, how to solve this issue?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Have a good day!<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Jonathan<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Users mailing list -- <a ymailto="mailto:users@ovirt.org" href="mailto:users@ovirt.org">users@ovirt.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">To unsubscribe send an email to <a ymailto="mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org" href="mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org">users-leave@ovirt.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Privacy Statement: <a href="https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html" target="_blank">https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">oVirt Code of Conduct: <a href="https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/" target="_blank">https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">List Archives: <a href="https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/QAFV3KKXAMYOESEPGPWMCSNUTA5LH2JV/" target="_blank">https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/QAFV3KKXAMYOESEPGPWMCSNUTA5LH2JV/</a><br></div> </div> </blockquote></div>