Hi Khang, Once tested let us know how it went, I was looking at this too but got misguided I think by the:
To perform backup and restore tasks, Backroll's workers need an access to the VMs storage and to a backup storage. I only use local storage so that is not an option. -- Jimmy From: Khang Nguyen Phuc <phuckhag2...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, 11 June 2024 at 04:18 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Re: Backup VM on Cloudstack Hello everyone, Thank you for all your answers. I missed a few messages, so I couldn't reply in time. Thank you, Giles Sirett. I am experimenting with BackROLL and will review it as soon as possible. Best Regards, On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 11:04 PM Jimmy Huybrechts <ji...@linservers.com> wrote: > It says: > To perform backup and restore tasks, Backroll's workers need an access to > the VMs storage and to a backup storage. > > In case you use local storage for your vm’s it’s pretty useless then? > > -- > Jimmy > > From: Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> > Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2024 at 17:40 > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org <users@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: RE: Backup VM on Cloudstack > Hi Khang > The dummy provider is just that - it is a dummy provider for testing the > Backup and Recovery Framework - it doesn’t actually do any backups > > As Joao says - you can use Snaphots > > In terms of non commercial providers for the Backup & Recovery Framework, > have a look at Backroll https://github.com/DIMSI-IS/BackROLL > > > Kind Regards > Giles > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: João Jandre Paraquetti <j...@scclouds.com.br> > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2024 7:53 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Backup VM on Cloudstack > > Hello, Khang > > If your intention is to backup the VM's volumes, you can use the > 'Snapshot' feature on KVM, which will create a copy of the volume, this can > be done while the VM is stopped or running. With the > `snapshot.backup.to.secondary` configuration, the Snapshot will be backed > up to your secondary storage during the Snapshot process. Thus, if you lose > your primary storage, your secondary storage will still have backups of > your VM's volumes. > > Furthermore, version 4.20.0.0 will come with some optimizations of the > snapshot process, as well as introduce the concept of incremental snapshots > when using KVM as the hypervisor; which tends to be a lot faster and save > storage space. > > Best Regards, > João Jandre. > > On 5/24/24 04:32, Khang Nguyen Phuc wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm looking for some advice on solutions for backing up VMs running on > > KVM in Cloudstack. I found two plugins in the documentation, but they > > are both paid. I also saw the dummy backup, but introductions to > > Cloudstack mention that it is only for testing the API's > > functionality. Can I consider dummy backup as a "native" backup > > solution for Cloudstack? I see two offerings, 'Gold' and 'Silver,' but > > there is no information on how many backups it makes or for how long... > > > > Can you suggest a backup solution for me or provide clearer > > documentation about the dummy backup? > > > > Thank you very much. > > >