Solved Xen Orchestra - Backup yourself!
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So I don't recall if this was ever answered or what would be a solid solution to backing up your Xen Orchestra VM.
Now simply, you could have a second VM running Xen Orchestra to backup your "primary" XO installation but this seems like the long way around.
Additionally I could run NAUBackup to build a full on whatever schedule I need.
What I'm curious about is what does @olivier recommend to backing up a XO installation. The same applies to the XOA that his business supports, what do you recommend in these scenarios?
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I would say: use XO to backup your VM running XO (whatever using XOA or sources). Inception eh?
About the install itself:
- the main config is inside the redis database (often in
/var/lib/redis) - and the other source of data (mainly jobs etc.) which will become probably the only database in the future, is the
leveldbdatabase: probably inside/var/lib/xo-server/data/leveldb. - the config file of your xo-server is useful too
If you backup those 2 db's + the config file, you can even start a new install of Xen Orchestra, and retrieve everything (configured servers, ACLs, backup jobs etc.)
- the main config is inside the redis database (often in
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That was my thought process as well the whole "inception" concept....
So XOS should be able to back up it's self to the target NFS without issue. Or is a manual or separate approach recommend?
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Or even better yet, simply schedule a cron job on XOS to backup just the target information to my NFS target?
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@DustinB3403 If he can't backup itself, there is a problem, and it means you can't backup any other VM. Otherwise, using a file backup of the small DB + config file is pretty easy and useful.
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So I tested the backup functionality within XOS and the appliance backs it's self up without issue.
Wow!
No additional tools required. Great design @olivier !
