Script to backup libvirt/QEMU/KVM machines (with BackupPC)
To backup running QEMU/KVM machine I use script made by Daniel Berteaud. I've installed it in this way:
cd /usr/local/sbin/ wget "http://gitweb.firewall-services.com/?p=virt-backup;a=blob_plain;f=virt-backup;hb=HEAD" -O virt-backup-0.2.17-1.pl ln -s virt-backup-0.2.17-1.pl virt-backup chmod u+x virt-backup-0.2.17-1.pl
as you can see current version is 0.2.17-1
There is also a fork of virt-backup: github.com/vazhnov/virt-backup.pl - it's based on some earlier version.
Example command to backup centos-test machine (name shown by virsh list) to /mnt/backups directory.
virt-backup --action=dump --no-snapshot --compress --shutdown --shutdown-timeout=300 --vm=centos-test --backupdir=/mnt/backups
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