Thanks, Simon. So Cloudmonkey could call the VM snapshot?
On August 23, 2018 2:25:53 PM MST, Simon Weller <swel...@ena.com.INVALID> wrote: >There are lots of ways you can implement a Business Continuity or DR >plan. > >Some folks implement a second region or zone in a different market and >build their applications or services to be resilient across different >data centers (and/or markets). This often involved various forms of >data replication (DB, file et al). > >If you rely on secondary storage for backups, the assumption here is >that it uses a different storage system than your primary storage and >it can be used for recovery if your primary storage was to fail. > > >Now since the VM snapshot feature can be called by API and the >resulting QCOW2 file is written to primary storage, you could use a >script to execute the snapshot and then copy off the QCOW2 files >somewhere else. > >You could also use something like the Veeam agent - >https://www.veeam.com/windows-linux-availability-agents.html and backup >your VMs to an offsite NFS mount. > > >- Si > > > > >________________________________ >From: Asai <a...@globalchangemusic.org> >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 4:06 PM >To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >Subject: Re: KVM Live Snapshots > >So, I think this is kind of an elephant in the room. > >How do we get a standalone VM backup? Or what is the best way to back >up Cloudstack? > >Right now we are making regular DB backups, and backing up secondary >storage (for volume snapshots). But in case of disaster, how do we >recover this? > >Is there third party software available? >Asai > > >> On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Ivan Kudryavtsev ><kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com> wrote: >> >> There is no way to run scheduled snapshots for whole vm, at least >with KVM. >> I suppose the function is for adhoc only, especially as you may know >they >> are not copied to secondary storage. >> >> чт, 23 авг. 2018 г., 0:10 Asai <a...@globalchangemusic.org>: >> >>> Great, thanks for that. >>> >>> So, is there a way then to make these whole VM snapshots recurring >like >>> recurring volume snapshots? >>> >>> What are best practices for recovering a volume snapshot? e.g. >disaster >>> recovery scenario? >>> >>> Asai >>> >>> >>> >>> -- Asai
