Just the first steps.
I enabled in engine the incremental backup feature and
restarted engine service.
Created a CentOS 8.1 VM to backup, and updated it.
It has one qcow2 disk with flag of incremental backup
enabled.
I configured another server to be sort of backup server.
Copied backup_vm.py from the examples directory to the
/root and tried a full backup
[root@c8-bck-server ~]# ./backup_vm.py full --engine-url
https://ovirteng.mydomain
--username admin@internal -c ca.pem --backup-dir /backup
80fd995d-63c7-4f2a-a4c2-0ddaf1a8389d
[ 0.0 ] Starting full backup for VM
80fd995d-63c7-4f2a-a4c2-0ddaf1a8389d
Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./backup_vm.py", line 490, in <module>
main()
File "./backup_vm.py", line 181, in main
args.command(args)
File "./backup_vm.py", line 195, in cmd_full
backup = start_backup(connection, args)
File "./backup_vm.py", line 312, in start_backup
from_checkpoint_id=args.from_checkpoint_uuid
File
"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/services.py",
line 33584, in add
return self._internal_add(backup, headers, query, wait)
File
"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py",
line 232, in _internal_add
return future.wait() if wait else future
File
"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py",
line 55, in wait
return self._code(response)
File
"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py",
line 229, in callback
self._check_fault(response)
File
"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py",
line 132, in _check_fault
self._raise_error(response, body)
File
"/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/service.py",
line 118, in _raise_error
raise error
ovirtsdk4.Error: Fault reason is "Operation Failed". Fault
detail is "[Cannot backup VM. Backup is not supported by the
host (ovirt01.mydomain).]". HTTP response code is 409.
[root@c8-bck-server ~]#