Please take a look at: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration
Specifically: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration#Full_VM_Backups Regards, Vered ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Soeren Malchow" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:44:38 PM > Subject: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs > > > > Dear all, > > > > ovirt: 3.5 > > gluster: 3.6.1 > > OS: CentOS 7 (except ovirt hosted engine = centos 6.6) > > > > i spent quite a while researching backup and restore for VMs right now, so > far I have come up with this as a start for us > > > > - API calls to create schedule snapshots of virtual machines > This is or short term storage and to guard against accidential deletion > within the VM but not for storage corruption > > > > - Since we are using a gluster backend, gluster snapshots > I wasn’t able so far to really test it since the LV needs to be thin > provisioned and we did not do that in the setup > > > > For the API calls we have the problem that we can not find any existing > scripts or something like that to do those snapshots (and i/we are not > developers enough to do that). > > > > As an additional information, we have a ZFS based storage with deduplication > that we use for other backup purposes which does a great job especially > because of the deduplication (we can storage generations of backups without > problems), this storage can be NFS exported and used as backup repository. > > > > Are there any backup and restore procedure you guys are using for backup and > restore that works for you and can you point me into the right direction ? > > I am a little bit list right now and would appreciate any help. > > > > Regards > > Soeren > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
