You'll probably have an easier time finding something that can backup your hypervisor, if image/vm backup is what you're looking for.
A backup software that leveraged the ACS API only doesn't have much options besides using snapshots (AFAIK), and those you already have. If you're looking for something that can backup inside the guest vm I guess that could be doable by leveraging the event bus. Haven't seen any backup software that does it yet though. -- Erik On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Timothy Lothering < tlother...@datacentrix.co.za> wrote: > 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. 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