Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and kvm

2017-11-20 Thread Thing
I am looking to do the very same thing. So far I cant seem to find scripts that will actually snapshot the VMs so the "files" can be backed up. I have found a few that supposedly do so but they dont seem to work. :( What I am doing now is I am going to use the libvirt shutdown script to shut

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and kvm

2017-11-20 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 11/20/2017 03:27 PM, Josip Deanovic wrote: > On Monday 2017-11-20 11:45:09 Bill Arlofski wrote: > [...] >> Using a Runscript (with RunsWhen=before), you can have small script to >> tell the KVM hypervisor to perform a snapshot of a particular VM. Then, >> once the snapshot is complete, the job

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and kvm

2017-11-20 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Monday 2017-11-20 11:45:09 Bill Arlofski wrote: [...] > Using a Runscript (with RunsWhen=before), you can have small script to > tell the KVM hypervisor to perform a snapshot of a particular VM. Then, > once the snapshot is complete, the job would backup the VM's config and > disks, then in a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and kvm

2017-11-20 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 11/20/2017 04:41 AM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > I'm going to use Bacula for the first time. I have a virtual server > running on 10 KVM. Is it a problem if I back up all of them with > Bacula? I have Qcow2 disk images. I want to backup these disk images > just like a file. > > Is this a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and kvm

2017-11-20 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Monday 2017-11-20 14:41:06 Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > I'm going to use Bacula for the first time. I have a virtual server > running on 10 KVM. Is it a problem if I back up all of them with > Bacula? I have Qcow2 disk images. I want to backup these disk images > just like a file. > > Is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and kvm

2017-11-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, In principle you can simply backup VM image files.  However there is one condition and that is that the backup must be done with the VM turned off or done by somehow (I don't know how) making the VM pause and flush everything to disk.   Otherwise you risk to have a backup that when

[Bacula-users] Bacula and kvm

2017-11-20 Thread Gokan Atmaca
Hello I'm going to use Bacula for the first time. I have a virtual server running on 10 KVM. Is it a problem if I back up all of them with Bacula? I have Qcow2 disk images. I want to backup these disk images just like a file. Is this a problem ? Thank you in advance for your help.