Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs

From: "Liron Aravot" <laravot(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Soeren Malchow" <soeren.malchow(a)mcon.net&gt; Cc: "Vered Volansky" <vered(a)redhat.com&gt;, Users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 12:20:36 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs Hi guys, I'm currently working on complete example of the steps appear in - http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration will share with you as soon as i'm done with it. thanks, Liron ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Soeren Malchow" <soeren.malchow(a)mcon.net&gt; > To: "Vered Volansky" <vered(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: Users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 11:58:01 AM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs > > Dear Vered, > > at some point we have to start, and right now we are getting closer, even > with the documentation it is sometime hard to find the correct place to > start, especially without specific examples (and I have decades of > experience now) > > with the backup plugin that came from Lucas Vandroux we have a starting > point > right now, and we will continue form here and try to work with him on this. > > Regards > Soeren > > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-bounces(a)ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of > Blaster > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 5:49 PM > To: Vered Volansky > Cc: Users(a)ovirt.org > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs > > Sounds like a Chicken/Egg problem. > > > > On 12/23/2014 12:03 AM, Vered Volansky wrote: > > Well, real world is community... > > Maybe change the name of the thread in order to make this more clear for > > someone from the community that might be able to could help. > > Maybe something like: > > Request for sharing real world example of VM backups. > > > > We obviously use it as part as developing, but I don't have what you're > > asking for. > > If you try it yourself and stumble onto questions in the process, please > > ask the list and we'll do our best to help. > > > > Best Regards, > > Vered > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Blaster" <blaster(a)556nato.com&gt; > >> To: "Vered Volansky" <vered(a)redhat.com&gt; > >> Cc: Users(a)ovirt.org > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 5:56:13 AM > >> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs > >> > >> > >> Vered, > >> > >> It sounds like Soeren already knows about that page. His issue seems > >> to be, as well as the issue of others judging by comments on here, is > >> that there aren’t any real world examples of how the API is used. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Dec 22, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Vered Volansky <vered(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> > >>> Please take a look at: > >>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration > >>> > >>> Specifically: > >>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration#Full_VM > >>> _Backups > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Vered > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>>> From: "Soeren Malchow" <soeren.malchow(a)mcon.net&gt; > >>>> To: Users(a)ovirt.org > >>>> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:44:38 PM > >>>> Subject: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Dear all, > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ovirt: 3.5 > >>>> > >>>> gluster: 3.6.1 > >>>> > >>>> OS: CentOS 7 (except ovirt hosted engine = centos 6.6) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> i spent quite a while researching backup and restore for VMs right > >>>> now, so far I have come up with this as a start for us > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> - API calls to create schedule snapshots of virtual machines This > >>>> is or short term storage and to guard against accidential deletion > >>>> within the VM but not for storage corruption > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> - Since we are using a gluster backend, gluster snapshots I wasn’t > >>>> able so far to really test it since the LV needs to be thin > >>>> provisioned and we did not do that in the setup > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> For the API calls we have the problem that we can not find any > >>>> existing scripts or something like that to do those snapshots (and > >>>> i/we are not developers enough to do that). > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> As an additional information, we have a ZFS based storage with > >>>> deduplication that we use for other backup purposes which does a > >>>> great job especially because of the deduplication (we can storage > >>>> generations of backups without problems), this storage can be NFS > >>>> exported and used as backup repository. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Are there any backup and restore procedure you guys are using for > >>>> backup and restore that works for you and can you point me into the > >>>> right direction ? > >>>> > >>>> I am a little bit list right now and would appreciate any help. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Regards > >>>> > >>>> Soeren > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> 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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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