Hi, a new version is available on github which supports a list of VM's in the config.
https://github.com/wefixit-AT/oVirtBackup cheers gregor On 2015-09-18 07:50, Karli Sjöberg wrote: > tor 2015-09-17 klockan 21:24 +0200 skrev gregor: >> Hi, >> >> thanks, the tool is ready and online on github. > > Looks really cool. Good job! What do you think of making the backing up > into a loop and fetching VMs from a list? My thinking is that you > usually have more than one VM you´d want to back up, so something like > this maybe: > > def getVMsFromList(VMS_LIST): > try: > print 'Getting list of VMs from file \"%s\".' % (VMS_LIST) > fo = open(VMS_LIST) > output = [] > for line in fo: > strippedline = line.strip('\r\n') > output.append(strippedline) > fo.close() > return output > except Exception as e: > print 'Exception in getting list of VMs:\n%s' % str(e) > exit(1) > > And then you can loop: > for LIST_VM_NAME in getVMsFromList('VMs.list'): > .... > > Or to have the list of VMs in the config and then: > config = Config(config_file, debug) > VMS_LIST = vms_list > for LIST_VM_NAME in getVMsFromList(VMS_LIST): > .... > > /K > >> >> https://github.com/wefixit-AT/oVirtBackup >> >> cheers >> gregor >> >> On 2015-09-16 15:11, Amador Pahim wrote: >>> On 09/15/2015 11:57 AM, gregor wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I write currently a little backup tool in Python which use the following >>>> workflow: >>>> - create a snapshot -> works >>>> - clone snapshot into VM -> help needed >>> >>> snapshot = >>> params.Snapshot(id=api.vms.get('my_vm01').snapshots.list(description='my_vm_snap_01')[0].id) >>> >>> >>> snapshots = params.Snapshots(snapshot=[snapshot]) >>> >>> api.vms.add(params.VM(name='new_vm', memory=2524971008, >>> cluster=api.clusters.get("Default"), snapshots=snapshots)) >>> >>>> - delete the snapshot -> works >>>> - export VM to NFS share -> works >>>> - delete cloned VM -> TODO >>>> >>>> Is it possible to clone a snapshot into a VM like from the web-interface? >>>> >>>> The above workflow is a little bit resource expensive but it will when >>>> it is finished make Online-Full-backups of VM's. >>>> >>>> cheers >>>> gregor >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Users mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
