[ovirt-users] oVirt's VM backup

[Bernardo Juanicó]

I didnt know that, we may adapt it in the future, but at first we will
probably just write a basic set of scripts for minimal backup functionally
since our dev time is limited.

Ill keep you in mind when looking into it.

Regards,

Bernardo

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2017-09-21 13:08 GMT-03:00 Nathanaël Blanchet <blanchet at abes.fr>:

> Hi Bernardo,
>
> Thanks, I knew this tool, but it is based on sdk3 which will be removed in
> the next version 4.2, so I'm looking at sdk4 project.
>
> You may want to adapt it?
>
> Le 21/09/2017 à 17:08, Bernardo Juanicó a écrit :
>
> 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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