oVirt Backup Virtual Machine Solutions

oVirt backup is a necessity for those who utilize oVirt for daily job or for making a complex infrastructure based on virtual machines. Related to KVM, oVirt backup virtual machine technology has many common feats with KVM backup, and provides some extra possibilities and tools.

The engine-backup for Making oVirt Backup Script Sequences

For oVirt, it is a built-in oVirt VM backup instrument called engine-backup. It is a typical console utility, ready to be a part of some oVirt backup script or a base for GUI-laden utility (if someone will have a need to write a separate oVirt backup virtual machine solution based on this engine).

• To make oVirt VM backup using engine-backup, just check the user manual for this utility (readily available in the oVirt documentation). Files containing oVirt backup data are always of tar ¹ format. If you need to schedule a task or stop an engine when oVirt backup VM, please use cron.

¹ This is an uncompressed archive format popular for Unix-based and Linux systems, originally used for keeping big data arrays on tapes and streamers. Nowadays, this is a non-popular format used mainly for making open-source software builds and keeping consistent arrays of server-level data.

oVirt Backup and Restore API for Independent Vendors

Developers provide an oVirt backup technology based on a virtual machine API to make external oVirt backup solutions. Compared to engine-backup, these solutions have much more types of output formats, storage vaults, provide internal tools for encrypting oVirt backup VM, scheduling and so on.

Handy Backup can develop a feature for oVirt VM backup without any troubles, and if you need this feature, please send us a letter with your opinions and wishes to an address sales@handybackup.net (please mark the theme of your letter in the appropriate field!)