[ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API

[Liron Aravot]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Keppler (PEBA)" <thomas.keppler at kit.edu>
> To: "Liron Aravot" <laravot at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 12:01:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API
> 
> The Export Phase.
> 
There's no export phase, you create a snapshot and then you backup the data present to the time of the snapshot.
> --
> Best regards
> Thomas Keppler
> 
> > Am 04.12.2014 um 10:54 schrieb Liron Aravot <laravot at redhat.com>:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Thomas Keppler (PEBA)" <thomas.keppler at kit.edu>
> >> To: "Liron Aravot" <laravot at redhat.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:41:13 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API
> >> 
> >> This it requires you to halt the  vm, therefore it's not usable for us.
> > What phase requires to halt the vm?
> >> --
> >> Best regards
> >> Thomas Keppler
> >> 
> >>> Am 04.12.2014 um 08:51 schrieb Liron Aravot <laravot at redhat.com>:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi Thomas/plysan
> >>> oVirt has the Backup/Restore api designated to provide the capabilities
> >>> to
> >>> backup/restore a vm.
> >>> see here:
> >>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration
> >>> 
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "plysan" <plysab at gmail.com>
> >>>> To: "Thomas Keppler (PEBA)" <thomas.keppler at kit.edu>
> >>>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2014 3:51:24 AM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> 
> >>>> For the live-backup, i think you can make a live snapshot of the vm, and
> >>>> then
> >>>> clone a new vm from that snapshot, after that you can do export.
> >>>> 
> >>>> 2014-11-27 23:12 GMT+08:00 Keppler, Thomas (PEBA) <
> >>>> thomas.keppler at kit.edu
> >>>> :
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>> 
> >>>> now that our oVirt Cluster runs great, I'd like to know if anybody has
> >>>> done a
> >>>> backup solution for oVirt before.
> >>>> 
> >>>> My basic idea goes as follows:
> >>>> - Create a JSON file with machine's preferences for later restore,
> >>>> create
> >>>> a
> >>>> snapshot, snatch the disk by its disk-id (copy it to the fileserver),
> >>>> then
> >>>> deleting the snapshot and be done with it.
> >>>> - On restore I'd just create a new VM with the Disks and NICs specified
> >>>> in
> >>>> the preferences; then I'd go ahead and and put back the disk... t
> >>>> 
> >>>> I've played a little bit around with building a JSON file and so far it
> >>>> works
> >>>> great; I haven't tried to make a VM with that, though...
> >>>> 
> >>>> Using the export domain or a simple export command is not what I want
> >>>> since
> >>>> you'd have to turn off the machine to do that - AFAIK. Correct me if
> >>>> that
> >>>> should not be true.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Now, before I go into any more hassle, has somebody else of you done a
> >>>> live-backup solution for oVirt? Are there any recommendations? Thanks
> >>>> for
> >>>> any help provided!
> >>>> 
> >>>> Best regards
> >>>> Thomas Keppler
> >>>> 
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