Hiya, The API in oVirt engine actually supports creating snapshots etc. for backups. Check out github for scripts, i.e.:
https://github.com/luisperezmarin/oVirtVMBackup And there are others. There is also a commercial solution, Storware vProtect: https://storware.eu/products/vprotect/ And as far as backup systems go, bareos(open source) is an ok solution, and it also support oVirt: https://www.bareos.com/ HTH /tony [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > Part of our Disaster Recovery Plan we do tape backup. > > Our previous infrastructure was Oracle VM and VMs fisk were files (.img) we > could apply filters to our tar and backup to tape only required files. > > Now preparing the migration to Oracle flavor of oVirt (OLVM). > VMs disks are LVM partitions, within an iSCSI LUNs. > > I've tested "dd" to backup the entire iSCSI LUN to the tape. Seems OK > ,providing the right block size we achieve reasonable performances. > Though I don't quite see how to have that granular backup we had, in a simple > manner, which a goal too. > > Although there is compression at the LTO level, the dd conv=sparse parameter > may speed-up things. To be tested. > I'm just wondering if conv=sparse may breaks things at the LVM / qcow2 > containers ? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5XPQHPXBANCXUAU62LE2UMZJRZZ7JH76/ > -- Tony Albers - Systems Architect - Data Department, Royal Danish Library, Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Tel: +45 2566 2383 - CVR/SE: 2898 8842 - EAN: 5798000792142 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VMVSO76BMHPNWH5WPCJLJHSGXBNV7COB/
