[ovirt-users] oVirt VM backup and restore

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Juan Hernández <jhernand at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> >     Very good point Gialuca, you are right, the 'persist_memorystate'
> flag
> >     is 'true' by default, and that makes the pause longer. Would you be
> so
> >     kind to add it to the 'vm_backup.py' example that is part of version
> 4
> >     of the SDK?
> >
> >
> >     https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/blob/master/
> sdk/examples/vm_backup.py#L143-L151
> >     <https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/blob/master/
> sdk/examples/vm_backup.py#L143-L151>
> >
> >     (Note that that Gibhub is just a mirror, the change needs to be
> submited
> >     using gerrit.ovirt.org <http://gerrit.ovirt.org>).
> >
> >
> >
> > I already verified (on a 4.1 infra) that changing vm_backup.py
> > downloaded yesterday from master this way (apart connection paramters):
> >
> > $ diff vm_backup.py vm_backup.py.orig
> >  150d149
> > <         persist_memorystate=False,
> >
> > I get the backup result and snapshot is correctly without memory saved
> > (and no pause at VM side)
> >
>
> [snip]

>
> I see that you already have a gerrit.ovirt.org, so it shouldn't be
> difficult. The initial setup should be like this:
>
>   $ git config --global user.name youruser
>   $ git config --global user.email your at email
>   $ git clone ssh://youruser@gerrit.ovirt.org:29418/ovirt-engine-sdk
>   $ gitdir=$(git rev-parse --git-dir); scp -p -P 29418
> youruser at gerrit.ovirt.org:hooks/commit-msg ${gitdir}/hooks/
>
> Then, to submit the patch:
>
>   $ cd ovirt-engine-sdk
>   $ Edit the vm_backup.py file, and make your changes.
>   $ git commit -a -s
>   $ git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master
>
>
Ok. I found the time to try and apparently it worked as expected.
The master (you? jenkins CI? ;-) should see my change...
Just learnt (a little...) another thing

sys admins often try to put an eye inside devs field but the reverse seldom
happens ;-)
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