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sudhakarkumar's avatar
9 years ago

Linux KVM image level Backup

We have an SUSE Linux12 Physical Machine, In which few KVM's are created. is there any chance to take Image level Backup for these KVM's like Hyper-V and VMware.

 

Master server was windows server 2012 R2

netbackup ver:7.7.1

if not possible how we will ensure the Backup of Linux physical or virtual servers.

  • Image level backup for KVM is on devlopment roadmap at Veritas.

    To backup KVM hosts today, you need to deploy agents inside the VM's.

     

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  • Image level backup for KVM is on devlopment roadmap at Veritas.

    To backup KVM hosts today, you need to deploy agents inside the VM's.

     

    • peter12's avatar
      peter12
      Level 4

      DO YOU KNOW WHEN ??

      I´M STILL WAITING FOR IT AND GONNA NEED IT SOON

       

  • You can not backup KVM the same way as VMware or HyperV.

    You have two options:

    • Shutdown the guest systems and backup the system files at the host level
    • install client software inside the guest systems and treat them as physical
  • There is a way. 

     

    Storware vProtect https://storware.eu/en/storware-vprotect/ can do image level backup for most of open hypervisors environments such as Citrix XenServer, Xen (based on a regular Linux distribution), RHEV, oVirt, KVM, KVM for IBMz and Oracle VM. 

    Most important part - vProtects integrates with Veritas Netbackup