Exporting ova can be a decent backup method depending on environment. It can be resource intensive and you can’t do incremental backups.
For an enterprise grade backup solution look into vprotect. For more simple backup operations I wrote this ansible playbook a while back to automate backing up vm ova images to an nfs mount using ansible. I’ve been using it myself for several years and it has worked well for my use case: https://github.com/silverorange/ovirt_ansible_backup On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 6:32 AM Ali Gusainov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello experts. > > Environment: > 2 identical servers running > CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 > oVirt Version:4.3.7.2-1.el7 > No clusters configured. > NFS share for backups on third server. > > Have some questions. > 1. Need to create backups of virtual machines to NFS without downtime. Can > an 'OVA export' be a complete policy for backups? > 2. Is there a way to export vm to OVA via command line? > _______________________________________________ > 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/VARQGZIIZZGSMJFRMJIPWSPH3QIRM6Z7/ >
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