[OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

[Paolo Aglialoro]

Hi,

scenario: blade server with blades running vmware hypervisors, gigabit
storage with openindiana zfs pool, 2nd storage (commodity level) as a
backup.

Is there a script similar to the one u cited on vbox that:

1. Stops vmachine
2. Starts snapshot
3. Restarts vmachine when snapshot completed
4. Starts rsync of snapshot with backup machine

Thanks
Paolo
Il 18/ott/2013 06:45 "Jim Klimov" <jimklimov at cos.ru> ha scritto:

> On 2013-10-17 23:35, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>
>> I use the built in vbox initiator.
>>
>> Not the highest performing setup, but these are small business services
>> and disk IO isn't the biggest issue we have.
>>
>> I am using it for automated backup system.  I virtualize their servers
>> into vbox, pause the VM(s), zfs snapshot, send to a different pool and
>> send another copy offsite.
>>
>
> In such case note that the recent versions (circa one year now) of the
> script support creation of automatic ZFS snapshots of the backend
> storage after VM stop and before VM start, and at least for file-based
> VMs (including over NFS) and for local zvols it should be able to
> detect the list of involved ZFS datasets, as well as you can provide
> a list of other datasets you know as related (i.e. iSCSI LUN zvols).
>
> I did not have a scenario exactly like yours, but it may be possible
> (either out of the box or after minor scripting) to use the shutdown
> action to pause and un-pause the VMs and have this action wrap the
> creation of the snapshots. Certainly (right now) you can use the
> "vbox.sh zfssnap" method between your own pause/unpause calls with
> just one generic command to call from your automation scripts.
>
> I am not sure if pause/unpause provide for very good backups, since
> they would seem like a reset upon recovery (unlike savestate/restore,
> but at the cost of some more downtime).
>
> Feel free to ask for more features, I might get around to implementing
> them one day... or send patches :)
>
> //Jim
>
>
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