In today's world where data is the backbone of most businesses, the loss of critical data can result in significant financial and operational damage. This is why organizations invest in backup and disaster recovery solutions. However, manual backups can be time-consuming and error-prone, leading to data loss and extended downtime.
Thankfully, with advancements in technology, automating backups has become easier and more accessible than ever. This article will discuss how to create automatic backup data in oVirt.
What is oVirt?
oVirt is a free, open-source virtualization management platform. It was founded by Red Hat as a community project on which Red Hat Virtualization is based. It allows centralized management of virtual machines, compute, storage and networking resources, from an easy-to-use web-based front-end with platform independent access. KVM on x86-64, PowerPC64 and s390x architecture are the only hypervisors supported, but there is an ongoing effort to support ARM architecture in a future releases.
Advantages of automated oVirt backup
Faster, more reliable, and more accurate, reducing downtime and increasing data availability.
It can be scheduled to run periodically to ensure backups are up to date.
Scalable, handling large amounts of data without any additional manual intervention.
How to create oVirt automatic backup
1. Install crontab:
yum install crontabs -y
2. New backup script
vi /tmp/data/ovirt/backup.sh
script:
d_bak="/tmp/ovirt_engine_backup/`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S`"
f_log="/tmp/rsync_ovirt_bak.txt"
[ -d ${d_bak} ] || mkdir -p ${d_bak}
cd ${d_bak}
engine-backup --mode=backup --file=ovirt-engine.bak --log=backup.log >${f_log} 2>&13. vi /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
# For details see man 4 crontabs
# Example of job definition:
# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# | | | | |
# * * * * * user-name command to be executed
30 1 * * * root /tmp/data/ovirt/backup.sh //Execute the script at 1:30 a.m. every day
4. Add script execution permission
Chmod 777 / tmp/data/ovirt/backup.sh
5. Start scheduled task service
service crond start
6. Add timed service to autostart
chkconfig crond on
More professional oVirt backup solution
Vinchin Backup & Recovery is a robust virtualization environment protection solution including oVirt, VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Proxmox etc., which provides advanced backup features, including automatic VM backup, agentless backup, LAN/LAN-Free backup, offsite copy, instant recovery, effective data reduction, cloud archive and etc., strictly following 3-2-1 golden backup architecture to comprehensively secure your data security and integrity.
Besides, data encryption and anti-ransomware protection offer you dual insurance to protect your Proxmox VE VM backups. You can also simply migrate data from an oVirt host to another virtual platform and vice versa.
It only takes 4 steps for you to backup oVirt VMs:
1. Select the backup object.
2. Select backup destination.
3. Configure backup strategies.
Here, you can setup schedules for your backup jobs. You can perform full backups weekly or monthly and perform incremental backups on daily basis.
4. Review and submit the job.
Click and learn more about how Vinchin helps oVirt users implement advanced data protection in a simplified way.
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oVirt automatic backup FAQs
1. Q: How can I automate oVirt engine database backups?
A: Use the ovirt-engine-backup tool:
ovirt-engine-backup --mode=backup --file=/path/to/backupfile.tar.gz
You can schedule this command to run regularly using a cron job.
2. Q: Can I back up oVirt VMs to cloud storage?
A: Yes, using Vinchin, you can configure cloud storage (e.g., Amazon S3, Azure) as a backup target.
Sum up
To better protect your data, it is important to creat automatic backup data in oVirt. You can follow the six steps above or use Vinchin Backup & Recovery to protect data and oVirt virtual machines.
