Backup VM/OS under OpenStack

czezz · 12-12-2018, 09:43 AM

Hi,
what is the right way to do full backup of VM under OpenStack?

- In the old world I would simply dump filesystems.
- Under KVM, i would simply do KVM snapshot of VM (virsh snapshot-create-as)

But how to deal with OpenStack VMs?

berndbausch · 12-12-2018, 02:10 PM

You can do either.

There are two ways of taking server snapshots:

Code:

openstack backup create
openstack image create

If the filesystem resides on a volume, there is also

Code:

openstack volume backup create

Plus traditional backup methods using Amanda, Bacula etc., or OpenStack’s own Freezer service.

prasadsai528 · 12-19-2018, 03:43 PM

I am also suggesting what berndbausch suggested for query.