I've always found the same personally. You'd be much better off if you could implement an incremental backup solution. vProtect is one option that might do the job
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM Enrico Becchetti via Users <users@ovirt.org> wrote: > Dear all, > I have an Ovirt cluster with 3 Dell R7525 nodes and about 70 virtual > machines. I have been using ovirtbackup (python) for a long time to save > the VMs. > > Unfortunately it has always been a very slow process that with time and > the ever-increasing size of the VMs has become unusable. > > The oVirt cluster has two storage domains. "DATA" is a the fibre channel > type (8Gbs) with 18TB and an EXPORT domain NFS managed by a > dual-processor server HPE Proliant with 4x1Gbs. > > I'll give you an example. I have a vm with four vdisk for a 1.8TB and > these are the steps performed to backup this VM. > As you will see it takes many hours to get the clone from the snapshot > and then many hours to copy the clone to the NFS storage. > How can I reduce the time needed to save ? > Thank you ! > Best Regards > Enrico > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Feb 2, 2025, 6:26:47 AM > Snapshot 'Snapshot for backup script' creation for VM 'GRAYLOG-9' was > initiated by admin@internal-authz. > 45 > admin@internal-authz > infn-vm10.management > GRAYLOG-9 > Blank > INFNPG > DELL > 70bbb81b-ed44-4700-839a-96c1df8daeea > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 2, 2025, 6:27:22 AM > Snapshot 'Snapshot for backup script' creation for VM 'GRAYLOG-9' has > been completed. > 68 > admin@internal-authz > infn-vm10.management > GRAYLOG-9 > Blank > INFNPG > DELL > 70bbb81b-ed44-4700-839a-96c1df8daeea > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 2, 2025, 6:27:37 AM > VM GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 creation was initiated by admin@internal-authz. > 37 > admin@internal-authz > GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 > Blank > INFNPG > DATA_FC_P2050 > DELL > edde40d9-2a26-4d88-8a02-bd928c1ded4a > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 2, 2025, 1:59:30 PM > VM GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 creation has been completed. > 53 > admin@internal-authz > GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 > Blank > INFNPG > DATA_FC_P2050 > DELL > edde40d9-2a26-4d88-8a02-bd928c1ded4a > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 2, 2025, 1:59:34 PM > Snapshot 'Snapshot for backup script' deletion for VM 'GRAYLOG-9' was > initiated by admin@internal-authz. > 342 > admin@internal-authz > infn-vm10.management > GRAYLOG-9 > Blank > INFNPG > DELL > fcfc6291-a55f-431a-8b4c-87cb8e3615ff > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 2, 2025, 2:04:00 PM > Snapshot 'Snapshot for backup script' deletion for VM 'GRAYLOG-9' has > been completed. > 356 > admin@internal-authz > infn-vm10.management > GRAYLOG-9 > Blank > INFNPG > DELL > fcfc6291-a55f-431a-8b4c-87cb8e3615ff > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 2, 2025, 2:04:08 PM > Starting export Vm GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 to VMS_EXPORT > 1162 > admin@internal-authz > GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 > INFNPG > VMS_EXPORT > DELL > b964e3b3-df13-4b82-8128-00984eea380b > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 4, 2025, 5:27:50 AM > Vm GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 was exported successfully to VMS_EXPORT > 1150 > admin@internal-authz > GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 > INFNPG > VMS_EXPORT > DELL > b964e3b3-df13-4b82-8128-00984eea380b > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 4, 2025, 5:27:53 AM > VM GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 configuration was updated by admin@internal-authz. > 35 > admin@internal-authz > GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 > Blank > INFNPG > DELL > 44480c68-10ad-4660-bd9b-297043210503 > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Feb 4, 2025, 5:28:00 AM > VM GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 was successfully removed by admin@internal-authz. > 113 > admin@internal-authz > GRAYLOG-9_BCK_020244 > Blank > INFNPG > DELL > d141ad60-6cf8-4e77-b438-26b5481f4256 > oVirt > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/WNJZ5DAR2UEOVWTRKLEQJR77UKZ3UQHK/ >
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