[Users] recommandations for saving backing up ovirt

[Eli Mesika]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathanaël Blanchet" <blanchet at abes.fr>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 5:05:01 PM
> Subject: [Users] recommandations for saving backing up ovirt
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I 'd like to receive any usefull advices from the community about good
> practice of backing up ovirt with the restraint of zero down time.
> This involves :
> 
> 
>     * saving vms without shutting down (Restoring them can be done with a
>     halt). Is live snapshot enough for this? Is lvm or san snapshot
>     recommended?

      See http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup_API

>     * saving the postgres database (or only some of main tables). Can we do
>     it without stopping engine and the risk of a data corruption? Is there a
>     howto?

      For 3.3 you have share/ovirt-engine/bin/engine-backup.sh
      for usage please run it with --help
      You may do it without stopping the engine
> 
> 
> Thank you for your help.
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