XenServer Backup
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What should I use for backup? Just a home lab
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folks like HA lizard. i've not tinkerd with xen much. one of my favorites for HV so far though is Altaro.... if you ever get the HV bug.
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@anonymous said:
What should I use for backup? Just a home lab
XenOrchestra has some built-in backup stuff, I do believe.
Paging @johnhooks and @DustinB3403
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Where's @DustinB3403 when you need him
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@Dashrender say what?
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Ya XO has built in backup options. You can backup to an NFS share or locally if you have XO running on a different device.
There are other options too, like XenCenter can export snapshots as a backup, or you can use something like NAUBackup or Snapback. Both are scripts that export snapshots and then delete them.
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Yeah Xen Orchestra has Delta backup capabilities as well as "backup" which I'm assuming is full backup capabilities. @olivier would be the best person to ask about that function. (I simply haven't looked into it).
For your home lab there are several options I'd recommend.
NAUBackup - scripted solution that works at the hypervisor level but it only creates Full Backups of your VM's. It will rotate out your backups on whatever schedule you want.
Xen Orchestra - A way more fancy solution to NAUBackup works well, takes a bit more to setup, but completely functional, and provides Delta Backup capabilities.
You can also use Veeam free edition (anything under 1TB of data)
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@hubtechagain said:
folks like HA lizard. i've not tinkerd with xen much. one of my favorites for HV so far though is Altaro.... if you ever get the HV bug.
HAL is HA, doesn't address backups.
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@dafyre said:
@anonymous said:
What should I use for backup? Just a home lab
XenOrchestra has some built-in backup stuff, I do believe.
Paging @johnhooks and @DustinB3403
XO seems to be the tool for this these days.
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XO doesn't support backup or export in the free version
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@anonymous said:
XO doesn't support backup or export in the free version
Sure does!
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@anonymous said:
XO doesn't support backup or export in the free version
Not the free VM image, but if you download the open source version it does.
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@anonymous said:
XO doesn't support backup or export in the free version
Actually it does I'm using it in my work lab at the moment. Completely functional. 100% free.
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@anonymous said:
XO doesn't support backup or export in the free version
There are NO limitations in the free XO version. That's the very reason that XO popped into the community was to refute that myth a few weeks ago. They pointed out that they are completely open source and everything is available for free (without support, of course.)
Dustin has been backing up from the free XO now all week.
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@scottalanmiller said:
There are NO limitations in the free XO version.
What about patching? And Exporting VM's?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
There are NO limitations in the free XO version.
What about patching? And Exporting VM's?
Both are free in the open source version. I think you're looking at the XOA, which is pre-built by them.
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
There are NO limitations in the free XO version.
What about patching? And Exporting VM's?
There are no limitations.
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@DustinB3403 said:
You can also use Veeam free edition (anything under 1TB of data)
I thought Veeam didn't support XS? or are you talking about the End Point Protection free version?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
There are NO limitations in the free XO version.
What about patching? And Exporting VM's?
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The version that works on the VM, rather than at the hypervisor.
StorageCraft would do this as well, but I don't believe there is a free version.
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@DustinB3403 said:
The version that works on the VM, rather than at the hypervisor.
StorageCraft would do this as well, but I don't believe there is a free version.
No free SC version, but all versions are fully featured.
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@DustinB3403 said:
The version that works on the VM, rather than at the hypervisor.
StorageCraft would do this as well, but I don't believe there is a free version.
Any agent based solution I have to assume work work with XS because it assumes the OS is baremetal installed (or at least doesn't care where it's installed at all).
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@Dashrender said:
@DustinB3403 said:
The version that works on the VM, rather than at the hypervisor.
StorageCraft would do this as well, but I don't believe there is a free version.
Any agent based solution I have to assume work work with XS because it assumes the OS is baremetal installed (or at least doesn't care where it's installed at all).
Correct. VMs don't know that they are VMs. So agents always work.
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Ummm..... No.
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@anonymous said:
Ummm..... No.
It just is. Sorry. You have the XOA as has been mentioned a few times above. You are NOT looking at the free version but the XOA Demo of the Enterprise one. Get the real free one, there are NO limitations.
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@DustinB3403 can you do an export from your free version to show him?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
Ummm..... No.
It just is. Sorry. You have the VOA as has been mentioned a few times above. You are NOT looking at the free version but the VOA Demo of the Enterprise one. Get the real free one, there are NO limitations.
FYI, there is no OVA for the free one - you have to manually download some packages and do the install yourself, there is no image.
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@Dashrender right, the free version has to be installed manually.
