[ovirt-users] Re: Backup Solution

Hey Jamie, thanks for replying. I was wondering about gluster g-rep, but what if something that just happened to me (gluster f*ckup) will get replicated too. At this point (lost 3 HCI clusters due to Gluster) I am not really trusting this piece of software with my live data *and* my backups. I am really protecting myself against Gluster than anything else. So for backup purposes: The less Gluster, the better. -Chris. On 06/02/2020 18:31, Jayme wrote: > You should look at the gluster georeplication option, I think it would > be more appropriate for disaster recovery purposes. It is also possible > to export VMs as OVA which can then be reimported back into oVirt. I > actually just wrote an ansible playbook to do this very thing and intend > to share my finding and playbooks with the ovirt community hopefully > this week. > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 12:18 PM Christian Reiss > <email(a)christian-reiss.de <mailto:email@christian-reiss.de>> wrote: > > Hey folks, > > Running a 3-way HCI (again (sigh)) on gluster. Now the _inside_ of the > vms is backup'ed seperatly using bareos on an hourly basis, so files > are > present with worst case 59 minutes data loss. > > Now, on the outside I thought of doing gluster snapshots and then > syncing those .snap dirs away to a remote 10gig connected machine on a > weekly-or-so basis. As those contents of the snaps are the oVirt images > (entire DC) I could re-setup gluster and copy those files back into > gluster and be done with it. > > Now some questions, if I may: > > - If the hosts remain intact but gluster dies, I simply setup > Gluster, > stop the ovirt engine (seperate standalone hardware) copy everything > back and start ovirt engine again. All disks are accessible again > (tested). The bricks are marked as down (new bricks, same name). There > is a "reset brick" button that made the bricks come back online again. > What _exactly_ does it do? Does it reset the brick info in oVirt or > copy > all the data over from another node and really, really reset the brick? > > - If the hosts remain intact, but the engine dies: Can I re-attach the > engine the the running cluster? > > - If hosts and engine dies and everything needs to be re-setup would it > be possible to do the setup wizard(s) again up to a running point then > copy the disk images to the new gluster-dc-data-dir? Would oVirt rescan > the dir for newly found vms? > > - If _one_ host dies, but 2 and the engine remain online: Whats the > oVirt way of resetting up the failed one? Reinstalling the node and > then > what? From all the cases above this is the most likely one. > > Having had to reinstall the entire Cluster three times already scares > me. Always gluster related. > > Again thank you community for your great efforts! > > > -- > with kind regards, > mit freundlichen Gruessen, > > Christian Reiss > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > <mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org> > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/A4IVGFXXYQI... > -- with kind regards, mit freundlichen Gruessen, Christian Reiss