[ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs

Sun Dec 28 09:02:22 UTC 2014

Hi All,
I've uploaded an example script (oVirt python-sdk) that contains examples to the steps
described on http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration

let me know how it works out for you -
https://github.com/laravot/backuprestoreapi

 

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Liron Aravot" <laravot at redhat.com>
> To: "Soeren Malchow" <soeren.malchow at mcon.net>
> Cc: "Vered Volansky" <vered at redhat.com>, Users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 12:20:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs
> 
> 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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