[Users] recommandations for saving backing up ovirt

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/24/2013 12:00 PM, Eli Mesika wrote:
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> ----- 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 :
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>>      * 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?
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>        See http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup_API

using storage side snapshot could be interesting as well. ayal - thoughts?

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>>      * 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?
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>        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
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>>
>> Thank you for your help.
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>> Nathanaël Blanchet
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