I use qemu-guest-agent inside of a vm and ensure that the mounts are noatime. You can then use the guest agent to issue a freeze and get consistent rbd snaps of the backing devices. Those snaps can be exported, preferably differentially to skip over the unused portions, off to some other storage.
> On Jun 30, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Jason Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > > This isn¹t completely inside of OpenStack, but you can use something like > R1soft that is installed on an instance inside of your cloud then use that > to connect to other instances to bare metal. We (BlackMesh) have then > created a baremetal instance that ceph volumes can be attached to do full > restores or in the case you simply want a file, you can restore that > directly to the agent and be done with it. For better results, attaching a > physical server that has R1soft installed is a better option incase your > ceph (or what ever storage you are using) backend goes sideways. > > Not ³cloudy² but still better than the alternative which is to lose data. > > Regards, > > jason > > -------------------------------- > > Jason Ford > BlackMesh Managed Services > FedRAMP Moderate Certified > http://www.blackmesh.com > > > > > > > On 6/30/15, 10:33 AM, "Curtis" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Brendan Johnson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What are people using to perform image based backups of Windows and >>> Linux VMs in OpenStack? I am using KVM as the hypervisor, Ceph for >>> block storage and Swift for object storage. I know Cinder can backup >>> volumes that are not in use (at least in Juno, that may have changed in >>> Kilo). I am looking for an image backup solution that allow the backup >>> of online KVM VMs. Integration with OpenStack would be nice but isn't a >>> must. >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> I don't have any good answers, but I just wanted to add that we get >> this request as well. So, don't get me wrong, I don't think backing up >> instances is all that "cloudy" either, but some customers just expect >> to have the ability to backup entire instances and are pretty >> demanding about it. >> >> So I too would love to hear about anything operators are doing in this >> area. >> >> Also, I can imagine some basic scenarios for backing up an instance >> and sticking it into swift, but what about restoring an instance? >> >> Thanks, >> Curtis. >> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Brendan Johnson >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-operators mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators >> >> >> >> -- >> Twitter: @serverascode >> Blog: serverascode.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-operators mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
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