Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-27 Thread Asai
> > You could also use something like the Veeam agent - > > https://www.veeam.com/windows-linux-availability-agents.html and backup > > your VMs to an offsite NFS mount. > > > > > > >

KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-27 Thread Dag Sonstebo
napshot feature can be called by API and the resulting > > QCOW2 file is written to primary storage, you could use a script to execute > > the snapshot and then copy off the QCOW2 files somewhere else. > > > > > > You could also use something like the Veeam agent - > > https://www.veea

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-24 Thread Dag Sonstebo
also use something like the Veeam agent - > https://www.veeam.com/windows-linux-availability-agents.html and backup > your VMs to an offsite NFS mount. > > > > > > - Si > > > > > > > > > > __

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-24 Thread Dag Sonstebo
gt; > > - Si > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Asai > > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 4:06 PM > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: Re: KVM Live Snapshots &

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-23 Thread Ivan Kudryavtsev
se something like the Veeam agent - > https://www.veeam.com/windows-linux-availability-agents.html and backup > your VMs to an offsite NFS mount. > > > > > > - Si > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Asai > > Sent: T

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-23 Thread Asai
could also use something like the Veeam agent - > https://www.veeam.com/windows-linux-availability-agents.html and backup your > VMs to an offsite NFS mount. > > > - Si > > > > > > From: Asai > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 4:06

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-23 Thread Asai
OW2 files >somewhere else. > >You could also use something like the Veeam agent - >https://www.veeam.com/windows-linux-availability-agents.html and backup >your VMs to an offsite NFS mount. > > >- Si > > > > > >From: Asai >Se

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-23 Thread Simon Weller
NFS mount. - Si From: Asai Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 4:06 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM Live Snapshots So, I think this is kind of an elephant in the room. How do we get a standalone VM backup? Or what is the best way to back up

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-23 Thread Asai
So, I think this is kind of an elephant in the room. How do we get a standalone VM backup? Or what is the best way to back up Cloudstack? Right now we are making regular DB backups, and backing up secondary storage (for volume snapshots). But in case of disaster, how do we recover this? Is

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Ivan Kudryavtsev
There is no way to run scheduled snapshots for whole vm, at least with KVM. I suppose the function is for adhoc only, especially as you may know they are not copied to secondary storage. чт, 23 авг. 2018 г., 0:10 Asai : > Great, thanks for that. > > So, is there a way then to make these whole VM

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Asai
Great, thanks for that. So, is there a way then to make these whole VM snapshots recurring like recurring volume snapshots? What are best practices for recovering a volume snapshot? e.g. disaster recovery scenario? Asai

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Suresh Kumar Anaparti
t; > > > - Si > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Asai > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:44 AM > > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > > > Subject: KVM Live Snapshots > >

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Ivan Kudryavtsev
________ > > From: Asai > > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:44 AM > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: KVM Live Snapshots > > > > Greetings, > > > > We successfully upgraded to 4.11.1. One of the main reasons we did this

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Dag Sonstebo
ent server restart. > > > - Si > > > > > > From: Asai > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:44 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: KVM Live Snapshots > > Greetings,

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Asai
> From: Asai > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:44 AM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: KVM Live Snapshots > > Greetings, > > We successfully upgraded to 4.11.1. One of the main reasons we did this was > that we thought this would

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Simon Weller
: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM Live Snapshots Hi Asai, You can't do *VM* snapshots - but you can do live *volume* snapshots once you set kvm.snapshot.enabled=true. Regards, Dag Sonstebo Cloud Architect ShapeBlue On 22/08/2018, 16:44, "Asai" wrote: Gre

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Simon Weller
Make sure you have kvm.snapshot.enabled set to true in Global Settings. This setting change will probably require a management server restart. - Si From: Asai Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 10:44 AM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: KVM Live

Re: KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Dag Sonstebo
Hi Asai, You can't do *VM* snapshots - but you can do live *volume* snapshots once you set kvm.snapshot.enabled=true. Regards, Dag Sonstebo Cloud Architect ShapeBlue On 22/08/2018, 16:44, "Asai" wrote: Greetings, We successfully upgraded to 4.11.1. One of the main reasons we di

KVM Live Snapshots

2018-08-22 Thread Asai
Greetings, We successfully upgraded to 4.11.1. One of the main reasons we did this was that we thought this would enable us to do live KVM snapshots of running VMs. This doesn’t seem to be the case, though. When I try to snapshot a running VM, I just get the message: "KVM VM does not allow t