[ovirt-users] schedule a VM backup in ovirt 3.5

[Doron Fediuck]

Hi Indunil.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
>> > Can I shedule a VM backup with Ovirt Manager GUI. If possible, Pls let
>> me
>> > know.
>>
>> Not at this moment, and this is not planned for the future, afaik.
>>
>>
> Thanks for the direct Answer. Why 's that? Can you guys go ahead without*
> EASY BACKUP Solution*, When other Products like VMWare are around?
>
> VMware provides a utility with similar functionality to oVirt's backup
tool.
In order to properly backup a VMWare setup and VMs you will need to pay
money for
the relevant backup product.


>
>> Did you play with the other SDK examples etc suggested during this thread?
>>
>> May I suggest that this is best done as a plugin/contribution to a backup
>> solution, not standalone. I guess most sites with more than a few hosts
>> use
>> some such solution - FOSS (amanda/bacula/backuppc/etc) or proprietary
>> (netbackup/backupexec/acronis/etc) - and backup of VMs (ovirt or other)
>> should be handled in this scope.
>>
>>
> I have used bacula before. My question is how to backup VMs running in
> Ovirt?
> When I can't pinpoint a VM Image? Will I have to take Whole storage such
> as NSF, ISCSI or SAN (i.e - FC)
>
> Them, How to restore?
>
>
> Could you pls answer?
>
>
> Using the backup API[1] you should be capable of scripting such a task.


[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup_API


>
>> Searching the net I manage to find [1] and [2], which might be what
>> you want. Note that I never tried any of them myself.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/ovirt-china/vm-backup-scheduler
>> [2] https://github.com/wefixit-AT/oVirtBackup
>>
>>
> Thank you very much for the above links?
>
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