On 11/20/2017 04:41 AM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > I'm going to use Bacula for the first time. I have a virtual server > running on 10 KVM. Is it a problem if I back up all of them with > Bacula? I have Qcow2 disk images. I want to backup these disk images > just like a file. > > Is this a problem ? > > Thank you in advance for your help.
Hello Gokan, Bacula is quite flexible, and I think you have a couple options here. First, if you can install the bacula-fd daemon on the virtual machines, then you can get file-level backups of the data on the VMs. If you really want 'snapshot' backups of your VMs, you can install the bacula-fd on the KVM hypervisor and then you can configure Bacula to run a script before the actual data is backed up. Take a look at the Jobs Section in the manual and look at the "RunScripts" options. Using a Runscript (with RunsWhen=before), you can have small script to tell the KVM hypervisor to perform a snapshot of a particular VM. Then, once the snapshot is complete, the job would backup the VM's config and disks, then in a second RunScript in the same Job configuration (with RunsWhen=after) the snapshot could be automatically removed. Also, even if you are doing snapshot backups of your VMs the way I have described, nothing is preventing you from also installing the bacula-fd on some or all of your VMs to also get file-level backups of your VMs. Best regards, Bill -- Bill Arlofski http://www.revpol.com/bacula -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
