FeldHost™ Delivers new addon “Image Backup” – Tool for backing up your cloud qcow2 images

FeldHost™ is pleased to introduce a new OpenNebula addon Image Backup, which allows you to backup qcow2 images in your cloud. The script is written in NodeJS and has the following options:

• Backup all qcow2 images
• Backup only specific image
• Dry run for testing purposes
• Option to backup deployments

Benefits

• Live snapshots with FS freeze if the guest agent is enabled
• Automatically backups new images
• Backups also image snapshots
• Backups deployment files
• Easy restore – Creates backup directory tree identical with datastores

How does it work?

Read the documentation to get started.

Usage example

Install dependencies, clone git repo, and copy sample config:

yum install epel-release
yum install nodejs npm

OR

apt-get install nodejs

git clone https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-image-backup.git ~/one-image-backup
cd ~/one-image-backup 
npm install
cp config.sample.js config.js

Configure by following the manual.

vi config.js

Test and verify using dry run and verbose options.
List of options.

./one-image-backup.js -dvD

Setup cron:

vi /etc/cron.d/one-image-backup

MAILTO=your@email.tld
# Run every Saturday on 01:00
00 1 * * Sat user /path/to/one-image-backup/backup.sh

What Next & Contributions

Image Backup is a new project, and there are some things to improve. Contributors are welcome, we apply the Github Pull Request model for contributions in code and documentation. Stay tuned.