[ovirt-users] Backup through export and clone

[Soeren Malchow]

One small addition: if someone has an idea how to keep the load down even when clone within the gluster storage domain, any suggestions are welcome and we would test that

From: <users-bounces at ovirt.org<mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org>> on behalf of Soeren Malchow
Date: Wednesday 20 May 2015 00:19
To: "users at ovirt.org<mailto:users at ovirt.org>"
Subject: [ovirt-users] Backup through export and clone

Dear all,

I am no python developer (basically no developer at all) but i struggled with the backup for a while but finally i have a script almost OK for the backup.

Due to the fact that the “snapshot -> export” feature is coming as it seems in 3.6 we still need to clone and then export.

This script is threaded to do backups of 3 Vms concurrently, however, in our setup ( compute server with 3 separate gluster machines) parallel backups of 3 VMS create very heavy load on the gluster storage servers, and i would like to do the “clone snapshot” to a separate intermediate storage already, can anybody help me with that ? (somewhere around line 70)
The cloning can hopefully go away in September with 3.6 but until then we still need that.

Any other improvements are more than welcome – please keep in mind i am not a developer and I only tried my very best to write a decent script.

Also: do we have a place (git repo or so) where we can put this script for everybody ?

I am pretty sure there is more than one person out there looking for something like that (at least i hope :-) )

Regards
Soeren

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