Thanks, Strahil! Am 23.06.21 um 17:33 schrieb Strahil Nikolov:

You can mount the NFS outside oVirt and backup to it

But this is only possible with OVA export, right? And not the traditional way with making a snapshot and export the VM to the export domain.

Also, you can use pacemaker (if the NFS is a linux server) to ensure that failover is immediate and with NFS v3 the recovery of the clients should be fast enough to avoid troubles.

Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 11:51, jb <jonbae77@gmail.com> wrote: Hello community,

We use a NFS export domain for full backups. Sometimes I have to restart the NFS file server, but when I just restart that server, without doing anything in oVirt (I guess normally I should put the domain in maintenance mode), it can happen that hosts and VMs a crashing.

I had one time even the issue, that after a crash one XFS file system on one host got damage and I had to fix that.

My though was now, because I make only one time a week a VM full backup, I only mount the export domain in this time.

Is there an easy way to do this, with the API? Or would you have a other hint, how to solve this issue?

Have a good day!

Jonathan

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A while ago I wrote an ansible playbook to backup ovirt vms via ova export to storage attached to one of the hosts (nfs in my case). You can check it out here: https://github.com/silverorange/ovirt_ansible_backup I’ve been using this for a while and it has been working well for me on ovirt 4.3 and 4.4 On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 4:52 PM Strahil Nikolov via Users <users@ovirt.org> wrote:

I think that you can use the API to do backup to the "local" NFS.

Most probably you can still snapshot and copy the disks , but this will require a lot of effort to identify the read only disks and copy them.

Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov

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