
Hi All, I am using Ovirt for my QA environment almost 15 virtual servers, and it is working as expected. The only thing I am worried about is the backup solutions in case of failure or system crash. I tried looking into the LVM structure that is created by Ovirt but it seems a bit complex. Please let me know the proper solution (if there is any) for backing up my environment in case of failure. Best Regards, -- Saurabh Kumar System Admin Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) Red Hat Certified Server Hardening Expert (RH-413)

It would be great as any of you provide any pointer on this issue. Regards, On Tuesday 15 July 2014 02:35 PM, saurabh wrote:
Hi All,
I am using Ovirt for my QA environment almost 15 virtual servers, and it is working as expected. The only thing I am worried about is the backup solutions in case of failure or system crash.
I tried looking into the LVM structure that is created by Ovirt but it seems a bit complex. Please let me know the proper solution (if there is any) for backing up my environment in case of failure.
Best Regards,
-- Saurabh Kumar System Admin Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) Red Hat Certified Server Hardening Expert (RH-413)

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It would be great as any of you provide any pointer on this issue.
Hello, I believe there is currently no backup solution for oVirt. You can do=20 backups inside of vms or you can simply power-off vm and then export it=20 to the export storage. There is work underway on the backup API -=20 http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration Jiri Slezka
Regards,
On Tuesday 15 July 2014 02:35 PM, saurabh wrote:
Hi All,
I am using Ovirt for my QA environment almost 15 virtual servers, and it is working as expected. The only thing I am worried about is the backup solutions in case of failure or system crash.
I tried looking into the LVM structure that is created by Ovirt but it=
seems a bit complex. Please let me know the proper solution (if there is any) for backing up my environment in case of failure.
Best Regards,
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On 07/22/2014 05:26 PM, Jiří Sléžka wrote:
Dne 18.7.2014 9:27, saurabh napsal(a):
It would be great as any of you provide any pointer on this issue.
Hello,
I believe there is currently no backup solution for oVirt. You can do backups inside of vms or you can simply power-off vm and then export it to the export storage. There is work underway on the backup API - http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration
the backup api is implemented in 3.3 or 3.4 already. now backup solutions need to provide integration with it (or open source backup solutions - not familiar with these)
Jiri Slezka
Regards,
On Tuesday 15 July 2014 02:35 PM, saurabh wrote:
Hi All,
I am using Ovirt for my QA environment almost 15 virtual servers, and it is working as expected. The only thing I am worried about is the backup solutions in case of failure or system crash.
I tried looking into the LVM structure that is created by Ovirt but it seems a bit complex. Please let me know the proper solution (if there is any) for backing up my environment in case of failure.
Best Regards,
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On 22/07/14 11:52, Itamar Heim wrote:
On 07/22/2014 05:26 PM, Jiří Sléžka wrote:
Dne 18.7.2014 9:27, saurabh napsal(a):
It would be great as any of you provide any pointer on this issue.
Hello,
I believe there is currently no backup solution for oVirt. You can do backups inside of vms or you can simply power-off vm and then export it to the export storage. There is work underway on the backup API - http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration
the backup api is implemented in 3.3 or 3.4 already. now backup solutions need to provide integration with it (or open source backup solutions - not familiar with these)
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration
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