On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Brendan Johnson <bjohn...@paragusit.com> wrote: > What are people using to perform image based backups of Windows and Linux VMs > in OpenStack? I am using KVM as the hypervisor, Ceph for block storage and > Swift for object storage. I know Cinder can backup volumes that are not in > use (at least in Juno, that may have changed in Kilo). I am looking for an > image backup solution that allow the backup of online KVM VMs. Integration > with OpenStack would be nice but isn't a must.
Well outside OpenStack it rather depends on your backend... I'm not actually doing this so take it for what it's worth, but a possible workflow in OpenStack would be to create a Cinder 'snapshot' this does work live though anything you do live has some possibility of inconsistency, you'll get a copy that will seem 'crashed' similar to recovering from a sudden power failure. Obviously snapshot is different than backup, so potentially you could make the snapshot into a full volume, which would be a detached copy, and use that as the backup source... It's a thought any way, -Jon _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
