<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><pre cols="72"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yaniv Dary
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Rudi von Staden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rudivs@gmail.com" target="_blank">rudivs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I'm evaluating oVirt as a replacement for VMware, and one of the factors that I am struggling with is incremental VM backups. This is a requirement in the current configuration, but I haven't found a way to do it with oVirt as yet. It seems from my initial investigation that it might not be possible at this stage?</div><div><br></div><div>I refer to the wiki (<a href="http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration#Incremental_Virtual_Machine_Backups" target="_blank">http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration#Incremental_Virtual_Machine_Backups</a>) which lists this feature under future work, and to a StackOverflow question which remains unanswered (<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29127855/how-to-setup-incremental-backups-on-ovirt" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29127855/how-to-setup-incremental-backups-on-ovirt</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>So my questions are</div><div>1) Can anyone confirm whether this feature exists yet, or whether there is perhaps an unofficial way to get incremental backups,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is no way to do this today, this is on our hot list for RHEV 4.0.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>2) If it's not possible to implement incremental backups, what other approaches could work? Under VMware we currently take weekly full backups of all VMs, and daily incremental backups.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Tal?<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I am considering using guest-level backups as an alternative approach, but we would prefer to continue with our host-level backups if possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Rudi</div></div>
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