First, your scenario is missing the actual import, you just have the data in the export domain, not the vms in the engine. Second - A slightly simpler way you were looking for: 1. Export multiple vms using either a short script via RESTAPI or webadmin (select multiple vms and export). 2. Detach the export domain. 3. Backup the export domain with all its data. 4. Re-attach export domain when ready to. 5. Import vms. Good luck, Vered ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@skopos.us> To: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@skopos.us>, users@ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:47:06 PM Subject: Re: [Users] theoretical scenario
ok, so the process seems pretty obtuse, so let me run this by the list here and maybe I'm just not doing it the best way.
1) i connected an export domain called EXPORTNFS. the nfs share is physically on my management server (as is iso) 2) exported 1 VM. 3) on the mgmt server, i run "tar zxcf /root/test.tgz /opt/export/[UUID]/images /opt/export/[UUID]/master" 4) for good measure, i use ovirt web gui to delete the exported VM from the export 5) run the command 'engine-image-uploader –u admin@internal upload test.tgz –v –e EXPORTNFS 6) after a while, it completes and i see the VM back in the export storage tab under VM Import.
i didn't run the vm yet, but I'm assuming thats a successful export and import.
so, it seems if i wanted to export each and every VM from one separate ovirt to another, i would export each VM, tar-gzip it, clear it from the webgui, and start the next one? IE.. i mean it looks like engine-image-uploader would be pretty unhappy with finding more than one set of VM UUIDs inside?
is this the way it should be done, or am i doing it the hard way?
thanks! jonathan
From: Jonathan Horne < jhorne@skopos.us > Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:02 AM To: " users@ovirt.org " < users@ovirt.org > Subject: [Users] theoretical scenario
My production deployment is approaching soon, so i am trying to get some final tasks and concepts completed before that day arrives. Lets say, that i have a working domain, but that an impending disaster is about to destroy the whole thing. How can i get the Vms out, and then how can i reverse this and get them into a completely new and unrelated/unconnected ovirt domain?
Any advice, or a doc or link would be much appreciated.
Thanks, jonathan
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