[ovirt-users] oVirt's VM backup

[Nathanaël Blanchet]

Thanks for your work


Le 21/09/2017 à 18:53, Bernardo Juanicó a écrit :
> 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 
> <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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>>     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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>>         -- 
>>         Nathanaël Blanchet
>>
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>     -- 
>     Nathanaël Blanchet
>
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>     Pôle Infrastrutures Informatiques
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>
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Nathanaël Blanchet

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