[ovirt-users] Incremental virtual machine backups

[Yaniv Dary]

Yaniv Dary
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Rudi von Staden <rudivs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm evaluating oVirt as a replacement for VMware, and one of the factors
> that I am struggling with is incremental VM backups. This is a requirement
> in the current configuration, but I haven't found a way to do it with oVirt
> as yet. It seems from my initial investigation that it might not be
> possible at this stage?
>
> I refer to the wiki (
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration#Incremental_Virtual_Machine_Backups)
> which lists this feature under future work, and to a StackOverflow question
> which remains unanswered (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29127855/how-to-setup-incremental-backups-on-ovirt
> ).
>
> So my questions are
> 1) Can anyone confirm whether this feature exists yet, or whether there is
> perhaps an unofficial way to get incremental backups,
>

There is no way to do this today, this is on our hot list for RHEV 4.0.


> 2) If it's not possible to implement incremental backups, what other
> approaches could work? Under VMware we currently take weekly full backups
> of all VMs, and daily incremental backups.
>

Tal?


>
> I am considering using guest-level backups as an alternative approach, but
> we would prefer to continue with our host-level backups if possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Rudi
>
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