[Users] Backup functionality via Acronis

[David Wilson]

Hi everyone,

A quick check up on this one? Has anyone used Acronis with oVirt?


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On 06/13/2012 06:57 AM, David Wilson wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> First off well done to the oVirt contributors - it is an excellent 
> product!
>
> Has anyone tested Acronis Backup and Recovery with oVirt?
> I am looking for a reliable way to backup guest oVirt disk images, 
> config and state. So far I've tried the popular script by Daniel 
> Berteaud 'virt-backup.pl'  which works very well for our standard KVM 
> systems but I found that I had to disable libvirtd's SASL 
> authentication which caused oVirt to lose connectivity to the node and 
> oVirt to fence the node.
> I thought I'd try a manual 'virsh save' but that causes oVirt to 
> believe that the guest has gone down which causes the guest to be 
> automatically migrated (I am running 2 nodes).
>
> What experience have you had with backing up guests? I am not sure if 
> Acronis is the best way forward?
>
>
>
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> Kind regards,
>
> David Wilson
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