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Create Automatic Backup Data in oVirt

2023-09-12 | Iris Lee

Table of contents
  • What is oVirt?
  • Advantages of automated oVirt backup
  • How to create oVirt automatic backup
  • More professional oVirt backup solution
  • Sum up
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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>&1

3. 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

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Designed as an all-in-one oVirt protection software, Vinchin Backup & Recovery works to deliver customers the one-stop backup and disaster recovery (DR) services with various powerful built-in functionalities. Vinchin supports automatic oVirt backup, agentless backup, LAN-Free backup, Changed Block Tracking (CBT), instant VM recovery and oVirt engine backup to fully protect and recovery your oVirt VMs.

Besides, As a leading oVirt backup solution provider in the oVirt community, Vinchin has been one of the presenters since 2020. oVirt Online Conference is the annual official event held by oVirt community. By inviting community members global-wide to share insights of oVirt related technologies, oVirt users can get the chance knowing more aspects of this open-source virtualization. Click and learn more about how Vinchin helps oVirt users implement advanced data protection in a simplified way.

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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. 

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