Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API

From: "plysan" <plysab(a)gmail.com&gt; To: "Thomas Keppler (PEBA)" <thomas.keppler(a)kit.edu&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 3:51:24 AM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API Hi, For the live-backup, i think you can make a live snapshot of the vm, and then clone a new vm from that snapshot, after that you can do export. 2014-11-27 23:12 GMT+08:00 Keppler, Thomas (PEBA) < thomas.keppler(a)kit.edu > : Hello, now that our oVirt Cluster runs great, I'd like to know if anybody has done a backup solution for oVirt before. My basic idea goes as follows: - Create a JSON file with machine's preferences for later restore, create a snapshot, snatch the disk by its disk-id (copy it to the fileserver), then deleting the snapshot and be done with it. - On restore I'd just create a new VM with the Disks and NICs specified in the preferences; then I'd go ahead and and put back the disk... t I've played a little bit around with building a JSON file and so far it works great; I haven't tried to make a VM with that, though... Using the export domain or a simple export command is not what I want since you'd have to turn off the machine to do that - AFAIK. Correct me if that should not be true. Now, before I go into any more hassle, has somebody else of you done a live-backup solution for oVirt? Are there any recommendations? Thanks for any help provided! Best regards Thomas Keppler _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users