[Users] Restoring Virtual Machines

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/17/2012 11:51 AM, ?????? wrote:
> Can I use the "data of storage domain", created in the old ovirt to import
> virtual machines in a new ovirt?
> It is possible to convert the "data of storage domain" in "export domain"
> manually? To mount it as a "Export domain" in a new overt

cc-ing vdsm-devel on how to change the metadata of the SD to make it an 
export domain, instead of a data domain (which is pretty arbitrary iirc).

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Itamar Heim [mailto:iheim at redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:36 AM
> To: ??????
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Restoring Virtual Machines
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> On 02/15/2012 11:43 AM, ?????? wrote:
>> hi, in the process of testing ovirt some questions:
>> 1. If you are upgrading ovirt we erased the database postgress,
>> whether it is possible to restore the list of virtual machines without
>> having to restore the database from the dump? Take a virtual machine
>> working on the nodes.
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> not easily right now.
> easiest (other than restore) would probably be to make the storage domain
> into an export domain, and import from it in the new engine.
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>> 2. Is it possible to manage virtual machines through the cli?
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> yes.
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>> 3. Is it possible to arrange a backup of virtual machines without
>> interruption of its performance?
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> I don't think there is a simple answer to this question.
> can you explain what is the exact concern?
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> thanks,
>      Itamar
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