saitta/kvmbackup

live backup of kvm virtual guests with external snapshot and blockcommit

Kvmbackup

Backup of kvm virtual guests.

status

offline backup is used in small production environment. live backup does not work with current libvirt (blockcopy always failed when with option "--pivot")

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197592

Usage

usage: kvm_backup.py [-h] [-d DEST] [-k KEEP] [-r RATE] [-t TIMEOUT] [-n] [--remove_tmp_file] [-D DISKS] [--noactive] [--force_noactive] vms [vms ...]

positional arguments: vms virtual machines to backup

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit

-d DEST, --dest DEST Backup destination folder

-k KEEP, --keep KEEP Number of backups to keep

-r RATE, --rate RATE bandwith limit in MiB/s ex. 20

-t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT Number of minutes to wait for blockcommit to finish

-n, --dryrun do not perform backup just inform

--remove_tmp_file remove external snapshot file(s) when blockcommit is finished

-D DISKS, --disks DISKS backup all disks if this list of disks is empty. This option can be used multiple times

--noactive do not perform perform backup if host is on

--force_noactive shutdown vm and do offline backup

kvmbackup's Issues

python kvm_backup.py test

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "kvm_backup.py", line 466, in
except FileNotFoundError:
NameError: name 'FileNotFoundError' is not defined