Introduction to OVM Backup tool
OVM backup tool performs Virtual machine image backup in OVM 3.4/PCA 2.3 environments.
If you are using a backup software that is currently not supporting OVM image backup, this tool will become handy to take OVM image level backup and move the backed-up files to your existing backup software.
The tool requires a small VM (PVHVM) with minimal Linux installation. In “Local” mode, assign a storage inside backup tool VM or in “Remote Backup” mode, assign a storage on the OVS server where you want to perform VM backups.
Features
The OVM Backup Tool feature highlights are:- Agentless Backup
- Support for local and remote backup modes
- Local, MySQL and Oracle DBs are supported for Metadata
- Purges backups based on retention policy
- Auto detection of VMs from OVM Manager
- Scheduling of backups
- Exclusion of Disks for backups
- Encrypted configuration and password files
- Supports Snapshots (SNAP), Repository (REPO) and File System (FS) backups
- Restores simple names
What's New in 2.1 Release
HTML based reporting is
introduced in this new release to list VMs, backup schedule, backups
verification and disk utilization.
Architecture
OVM backup tool runs as a virtual machine in OVM environment to perform backups.
The tool supports local or remote backup options. In either cases no need to deploy any agent inside the guest VMs that you are planning to backup.
There are number of options you can use to take a backup of a virtual machine, checkout https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/E64083/html/vmadm-backup-restore-vm.html for more details. This tool adopted the option of creating a hot clone of the (running) virtual machine, then back up the clone to target location for a running guest.
Local Backup Mode
In this mode, each server pool requires a dedicated backup tool VM. A storage mount point required on the backup tool VM to store the backups. The tool requires only the credentials of Oracle VM Manager to perform the clones and backup.
Remote Backup Mode
In this mode, one backup tool VM should be sufficient per VM manager. A storage mount point required on the OVS server to store the backups. The tool requires the credentials of Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Server (OVS) to perform the clones and backup. In this case, the tool login to the OVS server and completes the VM backup.
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Hi Kalyan, first of all I would like to thank you for the work and effort put on the backup tool. It is sad that the OVM GUI doesn't support backups or snapshots. I installed the backup tool and followed the guide, but the backup job never succeeded for me. I get the following error:
ReplyDelete2020-10-19 20:30:35,864 /u01/app/ovmbackup/bin/backupvm ERROR errors:368
ERROR ***** Unable to Move Backup VM test to Target Repository :Admin Repository *****
2020-10-19 20:30:35,865 /u01/app/ovmbackup/bin/backupvm ERROR errors:370 clone vm name="test" desttype=vm destName=test_MON_19102020_200031 serverpool=Rack1_ServerPool CloneCustomizer=test_MON_19102020_200031 targetRepository=Admin Repository - Invalid format (missing equals sign).
Do you know what the above error is, or how can I fix it?
Thanks again for the great work!
Hi,
DeleteI suspect the issue is with target repository name "Admin Repository", the space between the words. Could you check by removing the space in the repository name, if possible.
Kalyan