Hi Khang The dummy provider is just that - it is a dummy provider for testing the Backup and Recovery Framework - it doesn’t actually do any backups
As Joao says - you can use Snaphots In terms of non commercial providers for the Backup & Recovery Framework, have a look at Backroll https://github.com/DIMSI-IS/BackROLL Kind Regards Giles -----Original Message----- From: João Jandre Paraquetti <j...@scclouds.com.br> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2024 7:53 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Backup VM on Cloudstack Hello, Khang If your intention is to backup the VM's volumes, you can use the 'Snapshot' feature on KVM, which will create a copy of the volume, this can be done while the VM is stopped or running. With the `snapshot.backup.to.secondary` configuration, the Snapshot will be backed up to your secondary storage during the Snapshot process. Thus, if you lose your primary storage, your secondary storage will still have backups of your VM's volumes. Furthermore, version 4.20.0.0 will come with some optimizations of the snapshot process, as well as introduce the concept of incremental snapshots when using KVM as the hypervisor; which tends to be a lot faster and save storage space. Best Regards, João Jandre. On 5/24/24 04:32, Khang Nguyen Phuc wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm looking for some advice on solutions for backing up VMs running on > KVM in Cloudstack. I found two plugins in the documentation, but they > are both paid. I also saw the dummy backup, but introductions to > Cloudstack mention that it is only for testing the API's > functionality. Can I consider dummy backup as a "native" backup > solution for Cloudstack? I see two offerings, 'Gold' and 'Silver,' but > there is no information on how many backups it makes or for how long... > > Can you suggest a backup solution for me or provide clearer > documentation about the dummy backup? > > Thank you very much. >
