[ovirt-users] oVirt's VM backup
Nathanaël Blanchet
blanchet at abes.fr
Thu Sep 21 17:59:24 UTC 2017
Yes seems to be good, the UI is very nice, but I didn't manage to make
one backup though the connection to the API is okay. I followed the
README but Nothing happens when lauching the backup processus...
Le 21/09/2017 à 19:34, Niyazi Elvan a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> You may check my project Bacchus at
> https://github.com/openbacchus/bacchus
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 21, 2017 19:54, "Bernardo Juanicó" <bjuanico at gmail.com
> <mailto:bjuanico at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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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> Skype: mattraken
>
> 2017-09-21 13:08 GMT-03:00 Nathanaël Blanchet <blanchet at abes.fr
> <mailto: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
>> <https://github.com/bjuanico/oVirtBackup>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bernardo
>>
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>> <http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x695E5BCE34263F5B>
>> Skype: mattraken
>>
>> 2017-09-21 11:00 GMT-03:00 Nathanaël Blanchet
>> <blanchet at abes.fr <mailto: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/
>>> <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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