Backing Up a Self Hosted Engine Ovirt

We can create a fullback of oVirt engine without stopping the oVirt infrastructure using the ovirt-backup command. To do this, ssh to the oVirt hosted-engine and specify this backup scope, the name of backup file and the name of the log file. [root@ovirtm ~]# engine-backup --scope=all --mode=backup --file=ovirtm-backup_20201223.tgz --log=backup_20201223.log Start of engine-backup with mode 'backup' scope: all archive file: ovirtm-backup_20201223.tgz log file: backup_20201223.log Backing up: Notifying engine - Files - Engine database 'engine' - DWH database 'ovirt_engine_history' Packing into file 'ovirtm-backup_20201223....

December 23, 2020 · 1 min · 103 words · kenno