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<p>Is it just me just finds strange the way oVirt/RHEV does backup ?</p>
<p>At the present you have to snapshot the VM (fine by that), but
them you have to clone AND export it to an Export Domain, then
delete the cloned VM. That means three copies of the same VM
somewhere.</p>
<p>Wouldn't it be more logical to take a snapshot, get the then
read-only disk and export it directly from any host that can read
it, and finally remove the snapshot ?</p>
<p>Why the need to clone AND export ? What is the limitation to pull
this VM directlly from host decreasing the time it takes the
overall process and mainly the amount of storage necessary to do
this job.<br>
Ohh and before I forget by this workflow the disks are hammered a
lot more decreasing their lifetime and may causing performance
issues mainly during the clone process.</p>
<p>Fernando<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/09/2017 14:59, Nathanaël Blanchet
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<p>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...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 21/09/2017 à 19:34, Niyazi Elvan a
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<div>Hi,
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<div dir="auto">You may check my project Bacchus at <a
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>Ill keep you in mind when looking into it.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Bernardo</div>
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<p>Hi Bernardo,</p>
<p>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. <br>
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<p>You may want to adapt it?<br>
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21/09/2017 à 17:08, Bernardo Juanicó a
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Nathanael,
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<div>You may want to take a look at
this too:<br>
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<a
href="https://github.com/bjuanico/oVirtBackup"
target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/bjuanico/oV<wbr>irtBackup</a><br>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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11:00 GMT-03:00 Nathanaël
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<p>Hello Victor,</p>
<p>I have some questions
about your script<br>
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07/07/2017 à 23:40, Victor
José Acosta Domínguez a
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<div>Hello everyone, i
created a python tool
to backup and restore
oVirt's VMs.</div>
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<div>Also i created a
little "how to" on my
blog:</div>
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href="http://blog.infratic.com/2017/07/create-ovirtrhevs-vm-backup/"
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<li>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.</li>
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<li><i>Take a snapshot of
the virtual machine to
be backed up -
(existing oVirt REST
API operation)</i></li>
<li><i>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></li>
</ol>
<p><font color="#ff0000">I
can't see any vm
configuration anywhere
but only the qcow2 disk
itself</font></p>
<ol>
<li><i>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)</i></li>
<li> <i><br>
</i></li>
<li><i>Detach the disk
snapshots that were
attached in (4) from
the virtual appliance
- (added capability to
oVirt as part of the
Backup API)</i></li>
</ol>
<p>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.<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>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.
<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Do you plan to backup and
restore a full VM (disks +
vm definition) in a next
release?<br>
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someone else</div>
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