Backup of Integrity VM guest

[Warren_9]

Hi,

i would like to backup of the VM guest and any idea will the following step work and able to restore from backup....??

Backup... on the VM host
1. shutdown the VM guest
2. 'dd' the lvol of the guest system disk to tape
3. 'tar' the /var/opt/hpvm

THX!!
Warren.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Warren,

Did you read this whitepaper:

http://docs.hp.com/en/13163/BackupStrategiesforIntegrityVM.pdf

HTH

Duncan

[Warren_9]

Hi Duncan,

I read that paper before and our environment seems none of the method ok...

1. no DP or other backup SW
2. no ignite server
3. VM version too old and don't support tape drive on VM guest...

As the doc mention about the LV split/merge, that's why I think the 'dd' lvol may work...

thanks,
Warren.

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

What about make_net_recovery ?

Suraj

[Warren_9]

sorry make_net_recovery not work...

1. no DP or other backup SW
2. no ignite server
3. VM version too old and don't support tape drive on VM guest...

[likid0]

Hi,

I use diferent methods, I have some systems that the virtual disks are lvols, for these systems I do:

from inside the vm:
make_net_recovery(ignite)
DrD clone for the vg00
tsm data backup
from the host:
merge/split for the data lvols

And some servers that have a hole disk as virtual disk, I use flash copy(ds8300 storage) to make a 1 to 1 clone of the disks.

I have tested to restore with the diferent methods and they work fine.

I haven't tried out dd.

[Torsten.]

Your initial plan looks good I think.

However:

2. no ignite server
-> why not using the host itself?

3. VM version too old and don't support tape drive on VM guest...
-> why not upgrading? If it is too old it is likely unsupported already.

[Pete Randall]

Don't you think assigning zero points to people who have taken the time and made a sincere effort to offer you help is just a trifle rude?


Pete

Please give this off-topic response a nice fat zero. Thanks.

[Warren_9]

Hi,

the host itself does not have enough disk space to hold the VM guest ignite image and that's why it can't be use as the ignite server. The one who setup the server used most of the disks on the guest OS and never think about on the backup/restore....

about the upgrade.... I think it is better to make sure the system can be recovery before doing any changes on it.

Thx,
Warren.

[Warren_9]

Hi ALL,

from the following HP white paper, it is ok to backup the raw device that hold the guest OS.

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-7075ENW.pdf

Thx all!!
Warren.