[ovirt-users] VM incremental backup
Nathanaël Blanchet
blanchet at abes.fr
Thu Oct 6 09:26:20 UTC 2016
Hi all,
I didn't know this tool, after testing the original 40GB image size is
reduced as expected to 2,9GB with du -sh, but transfer between servers
continue to act as a 40GB image.
So if I understand virt-sparsify reduces the effective space on the
local disk, but the disk is seen with its original size by other
systems, and there is no advantage in transferring the image from one
server to an other.
Please tell me if I'm wrong.
Le 29/09/2016 à 15:10, Kai Wagner a écrit :
>
> Hey,
>
> I don't wont to break into your discussion, but I also never heard
> about virt-sparsfiy and the sparse option for dd.
>
> I tested it and it works like a charm. I converted a block device 65GB
> with dd sparse to 40GB raw image and afterwards I used virsh-sparsify
> to reduce the size down to 6.8GB into a qcow2 image file.
>
> Thanks a lot for that hint.
>
> Kai
>
> Am 27.09.2016 um 15:17 schrieb Sven Achtelik:
>>
>> No, I never came across this approach. I didn’t know about
>> virt-sparsify.
>>
>> I’ll look into that and give it a try.
>>
>> Thank you
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>> *Von:*Yaniv Dary [mailto:ydary at redhat.com]
>> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 27. September 2016 15:10
>> *An:* Sven Achtelik <Sven.Achtelik at mailpool.us>
>> *Cc:* Maton, Brett <matonb at ltresources.co.uk>;
>> vasily.lamykin at MegaFon.ru; Ovirt Users <users at ovirt.org>
>> *Betreff:* Re: [ovirt-users] VM incremental backup
>>
>> As I see it you have two options:
>> - In backup use 'dd' with 'conv=sparse' (or similar tool that
>> allows sparse).
>>
>> - After backup use virt-sparsify [1] to reduce the size to the real
>> used size prior to restore.
>>
>> To make this extra efficient you can use virt-sparsify anyways after
>> backup to make the file even smaller.
>>
>> Have you considered this approach?
>>
>> [1] http://libguestfs.org/virt-sparsify.1.html
>>
>>
>> Yaniv Dary
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>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Sven Achtelik
>> <Sven.Achtelik at mailpool.us <mailto:Sven.Achtelik at mailpool.us>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Yaniv,
>>
>> how can this be done with DD ? Since it doesn’t know if the block
>> is free space ? I’ve been looking for such a solution for a long
>> time now. Everything I could find out was that I have to use a
>> utility that understands the FS and therefore knows where the
>> free space is.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Sven
>>
>> *Von:*users-bounces at ovirt.org <mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org>
>> [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org <mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org>]
>> *Im Auftrag von *Yaniv Dary
>> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 27. September 2016 14:38
>> *An:* Maton, Brett <matonb at ltresources.co.uk
>> <mailto:matonb at ltresources.co.uk>>
>> *Cc:* vasily.lamykin at MegaFon.ru
>> <mailto:vasily.lamykin at MegaFon.ru>; Ovirt Users <users at ovirt.org
>> <mailto:users at ovirt.org>>
>> *Betreff:* Re: [ovirt-users] VM incremental backup
>>
>> Full VM disk backup. If you use dd you can drop the 0 parts of
>> the disk.
>>
>>
>> Yaniv Dary
>>
>> Technical Product Manager
>>
>> Red Hat Israel Ltd.
>>
>> 34 Jerusalem Road
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>> Tel : +972 (9) 7692306 <tel:%2B972%20%289%29%207692306>
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>> 2016-09-27 15:27 GMT+03:00 Maton, Brett <matonb at ltresources.co.uk
>> <mailto:matonb at ltresources.co.uk>>:
>>
>> Is there a preferred or recommended backup method in the
>> meantime ?
>>
>> 2016-09-22 10:30 GMT+01:00 vasily.lamykin at MegaFon.ru
>> <mailto:vasily.lamykin at MegaFon.ru> <vasily.lamykin at megafon.ru
>> <mailto:vasily.lamykin at megafon.ru>>:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I would like to understand the existence of the
>> possibility of incremental VM backups.
>>
>> And if it is, the means by which it is achieved.
>>
>> While I was only able to achieve a complete backup of the
>> virtual machine (but it is a very large amount of
>> information and time) by cloning a snapshot of the VM and
>> export to data domain.
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