[ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs

[Vered Volansky]

Please take a look at:
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration

Specifically:
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration#Full_VM_Backups

Regards,
Vered

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soeren Malchow" <soeren.malchow at mcon.net>
> To: Users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:44:38 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs
> 
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> 
> ovirt: 3.5
> 
> gluster: 3.6.1
> 
> OS: CentOS 7 (except ovirt hosted engine = centos 6.6)
> 
> 
> 
> i spent quite a while researching backup and restore for VMs right now, so
> far I have come up with this as a start for us
> 
> 
> 
> - API calls to create schedule snapshots of virtual machines
> This is or short term storage and to guard against accidential deletion
> within the VM but not for storage corruption
> 
> 
> 
> - Since we are using a gluster backend, gluster snapshots
> I wasn’t able so far to really test it since the LV needs to be thin
> provisioned and we did not do that in the setup
> 
> 
> 
> For the API calls we have the problem that we can not find any existing
> scripts or something like that to do those snapshots (and i/we are not
> developers enough to do that).
> 
> 
> 
> As an additional information, we have a ZFS based storage with deduplication
> that we use for other backup purposes which does a great job especially
> because of the deduplication (we can storage generations of backups without
> problems), this storage can be NFS exported and used as backup repository.
> 
> 
> 
> Are there any backup and restore procedure you guys are using for backup and
> restore that works for you and can you point me into the right direction ?
> 
> I am a little bit list right now and would appreciate any help.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Soeren
> 
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