Xen Orchestra / Metadata backup?

DustinB3403

@Danp if it's a bug with XS then that team will have to investigate it..

I'm curious if the export function from XO pulls the metadata with it....

I would assume it does

Danp

@DustinB3403 I think it does. It sounds like they are just ignoring it during the import process, which leads me back to my original question.

mark_arnold

Is there any good reason why simply linking the disk image backup created by XS to a fake domU wouldn't be sufficient, it would then be included in my DR backups? In a recovery situation, you'd just need to restore that first, and reload the data... or am I missing something?

scottalanmiller

@mark_arnold Welcome to MangoLassi!

olivier

Hi,

What kind of host metadata you would need to backup?

Danp

@olivier In the event of a catastrophic failure, wouldn't the pool metadata from xe pool-dump-database or xe-backup-metadata assist in restoration of the pool after reinstalling XS?

olivier

IDK what's inside those data ^^ Do you have the output of these to understand exactly what's inside this backup?

Danp

The commands are discussed here. You should be able to run them from the host's console to quickly generate the files for further analysis.

olivier

Getting a big fat XML. Yay.

olivier

Can you open a issue with specifications about how you would like to have this handled? Thanks!

scottalanmiller

Citrix says to not back up the host and it appears that megadata is stored on the SR. Has anyone attempted to restore without the metadata backup to see what would come up as missing? Having done something basically like this, I thought that I got all of the data that you would be looking for (minus logs.)

BRRABill

@scottalanmiller said in Xen Orchestra / Metadata backup?:

Citrix says to not back up the host and it appears that megadata is stored on the SR. Has anyone attempted to restore without the metadata backup to see what would come up as missing? Having done something basically like this, I thought that I got all of the data that you would be looking for (minus logs.)

It restores the VDIs, but doesn't associate them with VMs. Nor does it create VMs.

So you just have a bunch of VDIs.