On 01/09/2022 18:14, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Hi, Is there a way to backup KVM Guest VM running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) OS in kvmguestosimage.ova or kvmguestosimage.vmdk format as I am trying to restore it in AWS by referring to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ article as per the below supported file format. [1] Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) [2] Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) [3] Virtual Hard Disk (VHD/VHDX) [4] raw Also any method to take full and incremental backup of KVM Guest VM. Any help will be highly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in Advance. Best Regards, Kaushal
Stop the vm qemu-img convert -f raw origin.qcow2 dest.rawYou can then import but while we use this to create official centos image, don't forget to ensure that you node is ready to be imported, so cloud-init, etc, etc
It's usually easier/better/faster to have automation in place to configure an application and so replay it on a new node, and then replicate data
I guess only option why you'd want to not do this is that it's a running machine that was configured "by hands" by someone who left the company (and so without automation in place)
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