Thanks for the feedback, I will dig deeper to see what else can be done. Looks 
like I will need to start playing with APIs.....

Regards,

Timothy Lothering

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrei Mikhailovsky [mailto:and...@arhont.com] 
Sent: 30 January 2015 04:47 PM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Backup Solution in Cloudstack

As far as I know there is no such solution which is integrated with ACS, which 
is a shame. I would also like to see this issue being addressed by the acs. 

Having said this, I think the job of acs is orchestration and doesn't include 
the backup functionality within the guest vm. You might want to implement a 3rd 
party backup solution to provide additional backup functionality for the 
granular file recovery. 

If you are using XenServer with ACS, the snapshotting is pretty good and spot 
on. I think it covers the need for majority of clients. You can create 
scheduled backups for volumes and also vms, including memory snapshotting. It 
works pretty well and is also quick. 

In comparison, the KVM snapshotting is awful, broken, slow and just unusable 
even for small deployments. Try creating a snapshot schedule to take volume 
snapshots of let's say 10 volumes at about the same time. Your acs will be 
brought down to its knees. I am frequently seeing host disconnects when I have 
several snapshots running at the same time. 

Andrei 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Adrian Lewis" <adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk>
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Sent: Friday, 30 January, 2015 12:13:44 PM
> Subject: RE: Backup Solution in Cloudstack

> I’m finding that there’s nothing (for our requirements at least) 
> unless you go direct to the hypervisors or the VM OS instances using 
> agents.
> Keen to
> know if anyone’s found better solutions. Think there might be some 
> solutions if you’re only using VMware but I’ve ignored them as we’re 
> using Xenserver. Not heard of any commercial products that actually 
> ‘integrate’
> with CS unfortunately. Still looking…

> *From:* Timothy Lothering [mailto:tlother...@datacentrix.co.za]
> *Sent:* 30 January 2015 12:01
> *To:* users@cloudstack.apache.org
> *Subject:* Backup Solution in Cloudstack

> Hi Guys,

> We have been using Cloudstack for over a year now, and whilst the 
> built-in Snapshot feature is great, our Customers are demanding more 
> “control”.

> What other backup solutions are certified/capable of working with 
> Cloudstack?

> Kind Regards,

> Timothy

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