[ovirt-users] VM Live Backup

[Donny Davis]

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> 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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