[ovirt-users] oVirt's VM backup

[Bernardo Juanicó]

Hi Nathanael,

You may want to take a look at this too:

https://github.com/bjuanico/oVirtBackup

Regards,

Bernardo

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2017-09-21 11:00 GMT-03:00 Nathanaël Blanchet <blanchet at abes.fr>:

> Hello Victor,
>
> I have some questions about your script
>
> Le 07/07/2017 à 23:40, Victor José Acosta Domínguez a écrit :
>
> Hello everyone, i created a python tool to backup and restore oVirt's VMs.
>
> Also i created a little "how to" on my blog:
> http://blog.infratic.com/2017/07/create-ovirtrhevs-vm-backup/
>
>
>    - Backup step is okay, and I get a usable qcow2 image of the snapshot
>    vm in the backup vm. It seems to be compliant with the official backup API,
>    except on the step 2.
>
>
>    1. *Take a snapshot of the virtual machine to be backed up - (existing
>    oVirt REST API operation)*
>    2. *Back up the virtual machine configuration at the time of the
>    snapshot (the disk configuration can be backed up as well if needed) -
>    (added capability to oVirt as part of the Backup API)*
>
> I can't see any vm configuration anywhere but only the qcow2 disk itself
>
>    1. *Attach the disk snapshots that were created in (1) to the virtual
>    appliance for data backup - (added capability to oVirt as part of the
>    Backup API)*
>    2.
> 3. *Detach the disk snapshots that were attached in (4) from the virtual
>    appliance - (added capability to oVirt as part of the Backup API)*
>
> An other case is when the vm to backup has more than one disk. After I
> tested it, I found that only one qcow2 disk is saved on the backup vm. This
> is really a matter when the original vm has many disks part of lvm, it
> makes the vm restoration unusable.
>
>    - About vm restoration, it seems that you are using the upload_disk
>    api, so the disk is uploaded to the pre-defined storage domain, so it is
>    not a real vm restoration.
>
> Do you plan to backup and restore a full VM (disks + vm definition) in a
> next release?
>
>
> I hope it help someone else
>
> Regards
>
> Victor Acosta
>
>
>
>
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