[ovirt-users] oVirt's VM backup

[Niyazi Elvan]

Hi,

Can you share the log files under scripts/logs directory ?


On Sep 21, 2017 8:59 PM, "Nathanaël Blanchet" <blanchet at abes.fr> wrote:

> 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> 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
>
> PGP Key <http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x695E5BCE34263F5B>
> Skype: mattraken
>
> 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
>>
>> PGP Key <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>:
>>
>>> 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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