[ovirt-users] Backup storage domain for the meta data ONLY?

Yaniv Dary ydary at redhat.com
Wed Oct 21 06:50:28 UTC 2015


You can backup the engine only.
http://www.ovirt.org/Ovirt-engine-backup
But without the disks, you will not be able to start any VM.

Yaniv Dary
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Nicolas Ecarnot <nicolas at ecarnot.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In a lab, I have an oVirt test datacenter using a very old SAN (iSCSI
> setup).
> There are very few VM on it, and none of them are in critical.
>
> Some risky maintenance is to be planned on the SAN, and the risk is to
> lose it all.
> To be honnest, to lose these VMs is bearable, but to lose the setup would
> be painful (quite long to set everything back up).
>
> This is not an hosted setup, so I guess most of the config lies in the
> manager, and this part will stay untouched.
>
> My question : Is there any benefit to add an small additionnal temporary
> storage domain where (some unknown by me) meta datas could be duplicated
> (knowing that I have not enough room to export the VM)?
> What additionnal setup would be saved this way?
>
> --
> Nicolas ECARNOT
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