This sounds like a great idea, except where can I find the VM snapshot in the file system? I’ve checked the database for some kind of indication, and I’ve check primary and secondary storage to try to locate this snapshot file but I can’t find it… Any insights on this?
Thanks! Asai > On Aug 23, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Simon Weller <swel...@ena.com.INVALID> wrote: > > There are lots of ways you can implement a Business Continuity or DR plan. > > Some folks implement a second region or zone in a different market and build > their applications or services to be resilient across different data centers > (and/or markets). This often involved various forms of data replication (DB, > file et al). > > If you rely on secondary storage for backups, the assumption here is that it > uses a different storage system than your primary storage and it can be used > for recovery if your primary storage was to fail. > > > Now since the VM snapshot 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.veeam.com/windows-linux-availability-agents.html and backup your > VMs to an offsite NFS mount. > > > - Si > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Asai <a...@globalchangemusic.org> > 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 > 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 there third party software available? > Asai > > >> On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Ivan Kudryavtsev <kudryavtsev...@bw-sw.com> >> wrote: >> >> 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 <a...@globalchangemusic.org>: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >
