Re: [Users] Hot Snapshotting of virtual disks

On 10/18/2012 08:00 AM, Jason Lawer wrote: Hi Shu, Sorry I didn't go into more detail, yes I intend to copy the snapshot to a different medium (potentially to a DR site, at the very least to an independent NAS). The snapshot is just so I can grab a consistent copy of the disk (even though I u

Re: [Users] Hot Snapshotting of virtual disks

Hi Shu, Sorry I didn't go into more detail, yes I intend to copy the snapshot to a different medium (potentially to a DR site, at the very least to an independent NAS). The snapshot is just so I can grab a consistent copy of the disk (even though I understand it risks filesystem corruption due

Re: [Users] Hot Snapshotting of virtual disks

Basically, backup is different from snapshotting. Backup should have another storage different from the current share storage to store the disk content. oVirt 3.1 does have support for live snapshot of the VM disks and Qemu 1.1 is required at least to support this operation. In oVirt 3.1, you c

[Users] Hot Snapshotting of virtual disks

Hi, Can anyone give advice on what they are using for backup on their ovirt deployments. We have been using tar balls & rsync on our linux servers, but are looking for something more manageable and the number of servers grows rapidly. I ask because I have been looking at a few options. The fir