[ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs

[Liron Aravot]

Hi guys,
I'm currently working on complete example of the steps appear in -
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration

will share with you as soon as i'm done with it.

thanks,
Liron

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soeren Malchow" <soeren.malchow at mcon.net>
> To: "Vered Volansky" <vered at redhat.com>
> Cc: Users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 11:58:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs
> 
> Dear Vered,
> 
> at some point we have to start, and right now we are getting closer, even
> with the documentation it is sometime hard to find the correct place to
> start, especially without specific examples (and I have decades of
> experience now)
> 
> with the backup plugin that came from Lucas Vandroux we have a starting point
> right now, and we will continue form here and try to work with him on this.
> 
> Regards
> Soeren
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf Of
> Blaster
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2014 5:49 PM
> To: Vered Volansky
> Cc: Users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs
> 
> 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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