[ovirt-users] VM Live Backup

[Soeren Malchow]

Hi,

To support Michael here (i think he knows the script i sent around already) having a builtin backup would be much nicer.
The current procedure (ovirt 3.5) involves not only snapshotting and exporting, but also a clone before the export which puts massive unnecessary load on the environment.

We have developers who can potentially develop such a backup procedure, however, we can not do this alone.

Do you guys think we could do something like that through crowfunding or who would be willing to participate in something like that ?

Regards
Soeren



From: <users-bounces at ovirt.org<mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org>> on behalf of Donny Davis
Date: Thursday 30 July 2015 23:20
To: "Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk"
Cc: users
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] VM Live Backup


You could write a script to interface with the api that creates a snapshot and then exports or copies that to a backup nfs share.... And then run that on a cron job....

On Jul 30, 2015 5:18 PM, "Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk" <michael at schefczyk.net<mailto:michael at schefczyk.net>> wrote:
Dear All,

One feature that I am really missing in oVirt is a foolproof (i.e., in a way that even I will be able to implement) scheduled (cron would be good) live VM backup that outputs ideally qcow2 files per disk plus an xml-configuration file that one could upload to a regular KVM host, in case that should be required. As far as I understand, that is not yet on the roadmap, correct? For my plain SOHO KVM hosts, I am using a script to do just that. While I almost never need the backups - files with a human readable text name which I know how to use on any freshly installed KVM host in case of a crash emergency -, I feel better keeping them available for some time period.

Regards,

Michael
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