Hi,

I am aware that there is a procedure of backup/restore documented in https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.2/html/self-hosted_engine_guide/backing_up_and_restoring_a_self-hosted_engine , but I would like to have also else as well when it comes to backup (and restore) of hosted engine VM and avoid using hosted-engine --deploy / engine-backup 

Is anyone doing Libvirt snapshot or any other similar thing to back up ovengine VM?

Part of that is the XML of the HE VM should be intact, so currently I am considering https://libvirt.org/kbase/live_full_disk_backup.html#full-backup-with-older-libvirt-versions
and https://gist.github.com/cabal95/e36c06e716d3328b512

BR,

Konstantin