Is it just me just finds strange the way oVirt/RHEV does backup ?

At the present you have to snapshot the VM (fine by that), but them you have to clone AND export it to an Export Domain, then delete the cloned VM. That means three copies of the same VM somewhere.

Wouldn't it be more logical to take a snapshot, get the then read-only disk and export it directly from any host that can read it, and finally remove the snapshot ?

Why the need to clone AND export ? What is the limitation to pull this VM directlly from host decreasing the time it takes the overall process and mainly the amount of storage necessary to do this job. Ohh and before I forget by this workflow the disks are hammered a lot more decreasing their lifetime and may causing performance issues mainly during the clone process.

Fernando


On 21/09/2017 14:59, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote:

Yes seems to be good, the UI is very nice, but I didn't manage to make one backup though the connection to the API is okay. I followed the README but Nothing happens when lauching the backup processus...


Le 21/09/2017 à 19:34, Niyazi Elvan a écrit :
Hi,

You may check my project Bacchus at https://github.com/openbacchus/bacchus




On Sep 21, 2017 19:54, "Bernardo Juanicó" <bjuan...@gmail.com <mailto:bjuan...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    I didnt know that, we may adapt it in the future, but at first we
    will probably just write a basic set of scripts for minimal
    backup functionally since our dev time is limited.

    Ill keep you in mind when looking into it.

    Regards,

    Bernardo

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    2017-09-21 13:08 GMT-03:00 Nathanaël Blanchet <blanc...@abes.fr
    <mailto:blanc...@abes.fr>>:

        Hi Bernardo,

        Thanks, I knew this tool, but it is based on sdk3 which will
        be removed in the next version 4.2, so I'm looking at sdk4
        project.

        You may want to adapt it?


        Le 21/09/2017 à 17:08, Bernardo Juanicó a écrit :
        Hi Nathanael,

        You may want to take a look at this too:

        https://github.com/bjuanico/oVirtBackup
        <https://github.com/bjuanico/oVirtBackup>

        Regards,

        Bernardo

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        2017-09-21 11:00 GMT-03:00 Nathanaël Blanchet
        <blanc...@abes.fr <mailto:blanc...@abes.fr>>:

            Hello Victor,

            I have some questions about your script


            Le 07/07/2017 à 23:40, Victor José Acosta Domínguez a
            écrit :
            Hello everyone, i created a python tool to backup and
            restore oVirt's VMs.

            Also i created a little "how to" on my blog:
            http://blog.infratic.com/2017/07/create-ovirtrhevs-vm-backup/
            <http://blog.infratic.com/2017/07/create-ovirtrhevs-vm-backup/>

              * Backup step is okay, and I get a usable qcow2 image
                of the snapshot vm in the backup vm. It seems to be
                compliant with the official backup API, except on
                the step 2.

             1. /Take a snapshot of the virtual machine to be backed
                up - (existing oVirt REST API operation)/
             2. /Back up the virtual machine configuration at the
                time of the snapshot (the disk configuration can be
                backed up as well if needed) - (added capability to
                oVirt as part of the Backup API)/

            I can't see any vm configuration anywhere but only the
            qcow2 disk itself

             1. /Attach the disk snapshots that were created in (1)
                to the virtual appliance for data backup - (added
                capability to oVirt as part of the Backup API)/
             2. /
                /
             3. /Detach the disk snapshots that were attached in (4)
                from the virtual appliance - (added capability to
                oVirt as part of the Backup API)/

            An other case is when the vm to backup has more than one
            disk. After I tested it, I found that only one qcow2
            disk is saved on the backup vm. This is really a matter
            when the original vm has many disks part of lvm, it
            makes the vm restoration unusable.

              * About vm restoration, it seems that you are using
                the upload_disk api, so the disk is uploaded to the
                pre-defined storage domain, so it is not a real vm
                restoration.

            Do you plan to backup and restore a full VM (disks + vm
            definition) in a next release?


            I hope it help someone else

            Regards

            Victor Acosta




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