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Re:Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013) by RedShift1 on Friday September 04, 2020 @10:25AM (#24375175)
What software do you use to back up the virtual machines?
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Re:Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013) by guerby on Friday September 04, 2020 @11:11AM (#24375629)
We're currently trying to replace our proprietary backup software by using libvirt snapshot-create-as/blockcommit and borgbackup on raw image.

  virsh snapshot-create-as ... --disk-only
  borg create .... vmimage.raw
  virsh blockcommit ... --active --pivot
borgbackup does compression and deduplication and has a simple command line and excellent documentation (and IRC channel :).

https://www.borgbackup.org/

guestfish/libguestfs is then used if you need specific files within an image instead of a complete restore.

https://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html

Example dump the name of all files on all filesystems:

   guestfish --ro -i -a vmimage.raw find /
Can be used to check integrity post backup too, and may be we'll add some file indexing tools.
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