[Users] theoretical scenario

[Vered Volansky]

First, your scenario is missing the actual import, you just have the data in the export domain, not the vms in the engine.

Second - A slightly simpler way you were looking for:

1. Export multiple vms using either a short script via RESTAPI or webadmin (select multiple vms and export).
2. Detach the export domain.
3. Backup the export domain with all its data.

4. Re-attach export domain when ready to.
5. Import vms.

Good luck,
Vered



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne at skopos.us>
> To: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne at skopos.us>, users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:47:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] theoretical scenario
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> ok, so the process seems pretty obtuse, so let me run this by the
> list here and maybe I'm just not doing it the best way.
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> 1) i connected an export domain called EXPORTNFS. the nfs share is
> physically on my management server (as is iso)
> 2) exported 1 VM.
> 3) on the mgmt server, i run "tar zxcf /root/test.tgz
> /opt/export/[UUID]/images /opt/export/[UUID]/master"
> 4) for good measure, i use ovirt web gui to delete the exported VM
> from the export
> 5) run the command 'engine-image-uploader –u admin at internal upload
> test.tgz –v –e EXPORTNFS
> 6) after a while, it completes and i see the VM back in the export
> storage tab under VM Import.
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> i didn't run the vm yet, but I'm assuming thats a successful export
> and import.
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> so, it seems if i wanted to export each and every VM from one
> separate ovirt to another, i would export each VM, tar-gzip it,
> clear it from the webgui, and start the next one? IE.. i mean it
> looks like engine-image-uploader would be pretty unhappy with
> finding more than one set of VM UUIDs inside?
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> is this the way it should be done, or am i doing it the hard way?
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> thanks!
> jonathan
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> From: Jonathan Horne < jhorne at skopos.us >
> Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:02 AM
> To: " users at ovirt.org " < users at ovirt.org >
> Subject: [Users] theoretical scenario
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> My production deployment is approaching soon, so i am trying to get
> some final tasks and concepts completed before that day arrives.
> Lets say, that i have a working domain, but that an impending
> disaster is about to destroy the whole thing. How can i get the Vms
> out, and then how can i reverse this and get them into a completely
> new and unrelated/unconnected ovirt domain?
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> Any advice, or a doc or link would be much appreciated.
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> Thanks,
> jonathan
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