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Bug 1422279

Summary:	[RFE] Automatic time based scheduled snapshot creation/deletion policy
Product:	[oVirt] ovirt-engine	Reporter:	Pat Riehecky <riehecky>
Component:	RFEs	Assignee:	Rob Young <royoung>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Avihai <aefrat>
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Description Pat Riehecky 2017-02-14 23:34:34 UTC

Description of problem:
It would be nice if there was a way to say "Snapshot this VM every X, and delete snapshots older than Y" from the Admin interface.

For high sensitivity VMs the ability to have automatic snapshots would help simplify difference analysis and provide a clean way to look at system history.

Yes the filesystems wouldn't be cleanly unmounted, but this isn't (to my mind) much worse than when a HA VM crashes and is restarted on another node.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): oVirt 4.1


How reproducible:100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Look for clean way to schedule snapshots and retention policies
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
This looked kinda interesting

https://github.com/ovirt-china/vm-backup-scheduler

Comment 1 Yaniv Kaul 2017-02-16 07:36:23 UTC

1. It could easily be automated using the REST API / Python SDK / Ruby SDK / Java SDK / Ansible, but I agree a UI is nicer.
2. The file system should be sync'ed if qemu-guest-agent is installed, as it calls 'fsfreeze'. 
3. Notice that https://github.com/ovirt-china/vm-backup-scheduler has no license associated with it.

Comment 2 Yaniv Kaul 2017-03-12 19:32:34 UTC

Also, note that if the VMs are using a direct LUN, it's best to schedule it from the storage.

Comment 3 Yaniv Lavi 2017-06-15 08:54:19 UTC

You can also use manageiq to perform such tasks as well.

Comment 4 Doron Fediuck 2018-05-27 13:55:57 UTC

Most likely will be handled by Ansible.

Comment 5 Michal Skrivanek 2020-03-18 15:50:00 UTC

This bug didn't get any attention for a while, we didn't have the capacity to make any progress. If you deeply care about it or want to work on it please assign/target accordingly

Comment 6 Michal Skrivanek 2020-03-18 15:52:35 UTC

This bug didn't get any attention for a while, we didn't have the capacity to make any progress. If you deeply care about it or want to work on it please assign/target accordingly

Comment 7 Michal Skrivanek 2020-04-01 14:48:45 UTC

ok, closing. Please reopen if still relevant/you want to work on it.

Comment 8 Michal Skrivanek 2020-04-01 14:51:48 UTC

ok, closing. Please reopen if still relevant/you want to work on it.