Re: [ovirt-users] deprecating export domain?

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:58 AM Yaniv Kaul <ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I recently read on this list from a redhat member that export domain is >> either being deprecated or looking at being deprecated We want to deprecate the export domain, but it is not deprecated yet. >> >> >> To that end, can you share details? Can you share any notes/postings/bz's >> that document this? I would imagine something like this would be discussed >> in larger audience I agree. >> >> >> This seems like a somewhat significant change to make and I am curious >> where this is scheduled? Currently, a lot of my backups rely explicitly on >> an export domain for online snapshots, so I'd like to plan accordingly Can you describe how you backup your vms using export domain? What do you mean by online snapshots? > > > We believe that the ability to detach and attach a data domain provides > equivalent and even superior functionality to the export domain. Is there > anything you'd miss? I don't believe it would be a significant change. Attaching and detaching data domain was not designed for backing up vms. How would you use it for backup? How do you ensure that a backup clone of a vm is not started by mistake, changing the backup contents?

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