Vpdotect is working well for us. It also supports incremental backups. You can backup 10 vms on the free tier, at least to try it out.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 3:13 PM Douglas Duckworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > > We are running oVirt 4.2.8.2-1.el7. Should probably upgrade but it works. > > > We are backing up the engine > <https://ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Backups_and_Migration.html> > every > day with dump going to external NFS file system then onto the cloud. For > VMs we are doing backups within Linux itself using a program called Restic > <https://github.com/restic/restic> which then sends data to cloud S3 > service. That runs daily as well. > > > We also save all configuration data, for applications running on our VMs > such as Apache, etc, within Ansible. So we can quickly recreate the VM > using Ansible, along with any applications, then restore any data, not > saved in Ansible, such as private PKI keys or PostgreSQL dump, for > example, from Restic. Dockerized applications even easier. There would be > some downtime to redeploy a new VM but this is acceptable given the > constrains of our environment. > > > I am wondering under what situations has anyone experienced VM > corruption? This would help me determine if more effort should be invested > in snapshotting VMs and possibly exporting their disks. Though as I recall > *removing > snapshots from my storage domain *would require* shutting down the VM*, > right? > > > -- > Thanks, > > Douglas Duckworth, MSc, LFCS > HPC System Administrator > Scientific Computing Unit <https://scu.med.cornell.edu/> > https://github.com/restic/restic > Weill Cornell Medicine > E: [email protected] > O: 212-746-6305 > F: 212-746-8690 > ------------------------------ > *From:* femi adegoke <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 19, 2018 2:40:52 AM > *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [ovirt-users] Re: Agentless backup solutions > > Is no one doing any backups? > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ovirt.org_site_privacy-2Dpolicy_&d=DwIGaQ&c=lb62iw4YL4RFalcE2hQUQealT9-RXrryqt9KZX2qu2s&r=2Fzhh_78OGspKQpl_e-CbhH6xUjnRkaqPFUS2wTJ2cw&m=Sv3Sw3M5zdUMYKSEqPfHFLapnpr4Fxef2Y8IZr0iYGI&s=zUPtqH8SNwjeJ2B_0jQzP-dhSHhh5KjPCQOpNilaGT0&e= > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ovirt.org_community_about_community-2Dguidelines_&d=DwIGaQ&c=lb62iw4YL4RFalcE2hQUQealT9-RXrryqt9KZX2qu2s&r=2Fzhh_78OGspKQpl_e-CbhH6xUjnRkaqPFUS2wTJ2cw&m=Sv3Sw3M5zdUMYKSEqPfHFLapnpr4Fxef2Y8IZr0iYGI&s=EdYysbsWDfc80CK_Kvxbc6wUHUK8_73BNudu-XEtyMU&e= > List Archives: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.ovirt.org_archives_list_users-40ovirt.org_message_6RYDKAMDY4LM7CJRAACZOBQJPC4PISTB_&d=DwIGaQ&c=lb62iw4YL4RFalcE2hQUQealT9-RXrryqt9KZX2qu2s&r=2Fzhh_78OGspKQpl_e-CbhH6xUjnRkaqPFUS2wTJ2cw&m=Sv3Sw3M5zdUMYKSEqPfHFLapnpr4Fxef2Y8IZr0iYGI&s=mWDIqylJw4VFjWrX2E41F3liNT28oj1oedxaKt6xE2E&e= > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ADY5TIHQGEH3E3RUVU7N4ISO7DIUEAK6/ >
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