[ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs

[Blaster]

Sounds like a Chicken/Egg problem.



On 12/23/2014 12:03 AM, Vered Volansky wrote:
> Well, real world is community...
> Maybe change the name of the thread in order to make this more clear for someone from the community that might be able to could help.
> Maybe something like:
> Request for sharing real world example of VM backups.
>
> We obviously use it as part as developing, but I don't have what you're asking for.
> If you try it yourself and stumble onto questions in the process, please ask the list and we'll do our best to help.
>
> Best Regards,
> Vered
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Blaster" <blaster at 556nato.com>
>> To: "Vered Volansky" <vered at redhat.com>
>> Cc: Users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 5:56:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs
>>
>>
>> Vered,
>>
>> It sounds like Soeren already knows about that page.  His issue seems to be,
>> as well as the issue of others judging by comments on here, is that there
>> aren’t any real world examples of how the API is used.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 22, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Vered Volansky <vered at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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