Re: [ovirt-users] Live VM Backups

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Jones - BookIt . com Systems Administrator
Thanks, Soeren. I'll give it a look. On 07/08/2015 03:36 PM, Soeren Malchow wrote: Dear Chris, It is not true, you can snapshot a machine, then clone the snapshot and export it for backup purposes after that you can remove the snapshot, all on the live VM. However, you need newer versions of li

Re: [ovirt-users] Live VM Backups

2015-07-08 Thread Jiří Sléžka
Hi Soeren, thanks for sharing! I will look on this script right after upgrading to 7.1. It looks really useful. cheers, Jiri On 07/08/2015 09:36 PM, Soeren Malchow wrote: Dear Chris, It is not true, you can snapshot a machine, then clone the snapshot and export it for backup purposes after

Re: [ovirt-users] Live VM Backups

2015-07-08 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear Chris, It is not true, you can snapshot a machine, then clone the snapshot and export it for backup purposes after that you can remove the snapshot, all on the live VM. However, you need newer versions of libvirt to do that, right now we are using CentOS 7.1 and the libvirt that comes with it

[ovirt-users] Live VM Backups

2015-07-08 Thread Chris Jones - BookIt . com Systems Administrator
From what I can tell, you can only backup a VM to an export domain if the VM is shut down. Is a live VM backup not possible through oVirt? If not, why not? Most other virtualization tools can handle this. If it is possible, how do I do it through the backup API? api.vms.myvm.export requires it