[ovirt-users] NFS Storage domain backup

[Sven Kieske]

On 31/10/14 10:13, Mohyedeen Nazzal wrote:
> I'm using NFS storage domain, is it possible to backup the domain manually?
> or is there an api in ovirt which support this?
> 
> For manual backup, is possible to use tools like rsync ? or the data will
> not be consistent ?
> 
> Any idea of possible solutions for this?;as we don't have dedicated storage
> box.

Just detach the storage domain (for consistency).
Than you can "tar" the whole thing, maybe other methods
work too, but most do not very well when it comes to sparse files.
Use tar with the "-S" flag.

HTH

PS: There is also a backup api and you can try to backup running
vms with live snapshots.

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Sven Kieske

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