Hi, scenario: blade server with blades running vmware hypervisors, gigabit storage with openindiana zfs pool, 2nd storage (commodity level) as a backup.
Is there a script similar to the one u cited on vbox that: 1. Stops vmachine 2. Starts snapshot 3. Restarts vmachine when snapshot completed 4. Starts rsync of snapshot with backup machine Thanks Paolo Il 18/ott/2013 06:45 "Jim Klimov" <jimkli...@cos.ru> ha scritto: > On 2013-10-17 23:35, Geoff Nordli wrote: > >> I use the built in vbox initiator. >> >> Not the highest performing setup, but these are small business services >> and disk IO isn't the biggest issue we have. >> >> I am using it for automated backup system. I virtualize their servers >> into vbox, pause the VM(s), zfs snapshot, send to a different pool and >> send another copy offsite. >> > > In such case note that the recent versions (circa one year now) of the > script support creation of automatic ZFS snapshots of the backend > storage after VM stop and before VM start, and at least for file-based > VMs (including over NFS) and for local zvols it should be able to > detect the list of involved ZFS datasets, as well as you can provide > a list of other datasets you know as related (i.e. iSCSI LUN zvols). > > I did not have a scenario exactly like yours, but it may be possible > (either out of the box or after minor scripting) to use the shutdown > action to pause and un-pause the VMs and have this action wrap the > creation of the snapshots. Certainly (right now) you can use the > "vbox.sh zfssnap" method between your own pause/unpause calls with > just one generic command to call from your automation scripts. > > I am not sure if pause/unpause provide for very good backups, since > they would seem like a reset upon recovery (unlike savestate/restore, > but at the cost of some more downtime). > > Feel free to ask for more features, I might get around to implementing > them one day... or send patches :) > > //Jim > > > ______________________________**_________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@**openindiana.org<OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org> > http://openindiana.org/**mailman/listinfo/openindiana-**discuss<http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss> > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
