Another option is to shutdown the Engine and create a Gluster snapshot.<div>Yet, this requires Gluster with thin-LVM based bricks.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Strahil Nikolov&nbsp;<br> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 17:14, Volenbovskyi, Konstantin</div><div>&lt;Konstantin.Volenbovskyi@haufe.com&gt; wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv3093640248">

 
 
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<p class="yiv3093640248MsoNormal">Hi,</p> 
<pre style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:whitesmoke;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">I am aware that there is</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> a</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">procedure of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">backup/</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">restore documented in <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="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"><span lang="EN-US">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</span></a> , but </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">I</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> 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 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;">/</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Consolas;color:#151515;"> </span><span style="font-family:Consolas;color:#151515;">engine-backup </span></pre> 
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<p class="yiv3093640248MsoNormal">Is anyone doing Libvirt snapshot or any other similar thing to back up<span lang="EN-US"> ovengine VM</span>?</p> 
<p class="yiv3093640248MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Part of that is the XML of the HE VM should be intact, so currently I am considering
</span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://libvirt.org/kbase/live_full_disk_backup.html#full-backup-with-older-libvirt-versions" title="https://libvirt.org/kbase/live_full_disk_backup.html#full-backup-with-older-libvirt-versions"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#4F52B2;background:#E8EBFA;text-decoration:none;">https://libvirt.org/kbase/live_full_disk_backup.html#full-backup-with-older-libvirt-versions</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#242424;"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US">and </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;background:#E8EBFA;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://gist.github.com/cabal95/e36c06e716d3328b512">https://gist.github.com/cabal95/e36c06e716d3328b512</a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p> 
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<p class="yiv3093640248MsoNormal">BR, </p> 
<p class="yiv3093640248MsoNormal">Konstantin<span lang="EN-US"></span></p> 
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