I agree with Kirk here, configuration management for the virtual infra and the important bits of data should be made redundant at the storage level. Cloudstack has a snapshotting function but if your secondary storage server tanks, you'll be in a world of hurt. If you use cloudstack snapshotting, ensure your secondary storage is replicated or has plenty of redundant disks.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kirk Jantzer <kirk.jant...@gmail.com>wrote: > I said this in another thread and figured I'd mention it here since it > seems applicable. It is my belief that the cloud is the IaaS and that the > applications that run on the cloud should be built for failure of the IaaS: > they (instances/applications) should be rapidly deployable. So, it > shouldn't matter what cloud product > (openstack/cloudstack/vmware/aws/etc...) > you provide to your customers, they should be able to redeploy their > application where ever they go or are given for IaaS. > > With that said, if you really wanted to backup the VMs, you probably want > to look at something that backed up thorough the storage device, or the > hypervisor, and then backup the management and mysql db. > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:57 PM, WXR <1485739...@qq.com> wrote: > > > Virtual machines. > > I want to know how to do data backup and restore the vms when the > > cloudstack storage has been ruined totally. > > > > > > > > > > ------------------ Original ------------------ > > From: "Nitin Mehta"<nitin.me...@citrix.com>; > > Date: Mon, Jul 22, 2013 03:10 PM > > To: "users@cloudstack.apache.org"<users@cloudstack.apache.org>; > > > > Subject: Re: How to backup cloudstack data? > > > > > > > > What is it that you want to back up ? Virtual machines, snapshots - > > anything else ? > > > > On 22/07/13 7:09 AM, "WXR" <1485739...@qq.com> wrote: > > > > >I want to do a full backup of cloudstack data and restore them to a new > > >cloudstack,but I don't know which files should I copy and how to restore > > >them. > > > > . > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Kirk Jantzer > c: (678) 561-5475 > http://about.met/kirkjantzer >
