How-To: Backup a KVM (so that) LIVE snapshots are included

[sawgood]

Proxmox 3.0

I searched, and I could not find a direct answer.
Looking to be able to use the GUI to make a KVM backup and include the two LIVE snapshots.
Backups of KVMs (work) and (restore) 100% fine.

Work around so far: Make two backups of the KVM (one for each) LIVE snapshot.

The KVM is in qcow2 format.
The /dump directory (is off /) and the format is ext3

Here is output from the backup attempt to include a LIVE snapshot (up to 1%) to show the example:

INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 303 --remove 0 --mode stop --compress gzip --storage dump --node hosted-03
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 303 (qemu)
INFO: status = stopped
INFO: backup mode: stop
INFO: ionice priority: 7
INFO: snapshots found (not included into backup)
INFO: creating archive '/hx3-KVM-backups-main/dump/vzdump-qemu-303-2013_09_07-15_53_54.vma.gz'
INFO: starting kvm to execute backup task
INFO: started backup task '12459cc0-5d65-49bc-974d-d9cffbcc8105'
INFO: status: 0% (83623936/34359738368), sparse 0% (37330944), duration 3, 27/15 MB/s
INFO: status: 1% (486539264/34359738368), sparse 1% (392425472), duration 6, 134/15 MB/s

Any tips/suggestions are appreciated.

 

[dietmar]

Our backup tool does not include live snapshots.

 

[sawgood]

Our backup tool does not include live snapshots.

Thank you for your reply.
With your update, I'll stick to making individual backups (one for each snapshot).
This will be a huge drag for revision control, etc.

Final Q:
Do you know of any way to get all LIVE snapshots included into a backup (using the CLI maybe)?
Reason: Didn't want to have to make individual backups for each snapshot (and) then require their own KVM when restored.

Thanks in advance for your reply.

 

[dietmar]

Do you know of any way to get all LIVE snapshots included into a backup (using the CLI maybe)?
Reason: Didn't want to have to make individual backups for each snapshot (and) then require their own KVM when restored.

No, I do not know a way to do that.