Hello List, I have a KVM server running about 40 VMs these are a large variety of OSes ranging from different Linux version, Windows 7s, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD machines. I looking for a proper way to back these up, I don't expect features like Vmware's Vmotion to move them live to another server however I would like to move them offline to another server and in case the sever explodes all I would have to do is spin up the same VMs with a script. Sounds easy but none of the solutions what I found so far are perfect. First I was just doing rsync based backup of the .qcows images to the other server, this "mostly" works with Linux and Windows however the BSDs don't like it they go from file system corruptions at boot time (which is still fixable manually) to the point the KVM doesn't even boot. Shutting down the VMs to do the backup is not an option. I have tried these 2 methods: https://libvirt.org/kbase/live_full_disk_backup.html https://github.com/abbbi/virtnbdbackup?tab=readme-ov-file#complete-restore Makes absolutely no difference, the same issues come out with the VMs then if I would just rsync them. I got these versions on both servers: ii ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20190125.36a4c85-5.1 all PXE boot firmware - ROM images for qemu ii libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 Virtualization daemon QEMU connection driver ii qemu-block-extra 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u6 amd64 extra block backend modules for qemu-system and qemu-utils ii qemu-system-common 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u6 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files) ii qemu-system-data 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u6 all QEMU full system emulation (data files) ii qemu-system-gui 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u6 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (user interface and audio support) ii qemu-system-x86 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u6 amd64 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86) ii qemu-utils 1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u6 amd64 QEMU utilities ii libvirt-clients 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 Programs for the libvirt library ii libvirt-daemon 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 Virtualization daemon ii libvirt-daemon-config-network 9.0.0-4devuan1 all Libvirt daemon configuration files (default network) ii libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter 9.0.0-4devuan1 all Libvirt daemon configuration files (default network filters) ii libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 Virtualization daemon LXC connection driver ii libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 Virtualization daemon QEMU connection driver ii libvirt-daemon-driver-vbox 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 Virtualization daemon VirtualBox connection driver ii libvirt-daemon-driver-xen 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 Virtualization daemon Xen connection driver ii libvirt-daemon-system 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 Libvirt daemon configuration files ii libvirt-daemon-system-sysv 9.0.0-4devuan1 all Libvirt daemon configuration files (sysv) ii libvirt-glib-1.0-0:amd64 4.0.0-2 amd64 libvirt GLib and GObject mapping library ii libvirt-glib-1.0-data 4.0.0-2 all Common files for libvirt GLib library ii libvirt-l10n 9.0.0-4devuan1 all localization for the libvirt library ii libvirt0:amd64 9.0.0-4devuan1 amd64 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems ii python3-libvirt 9.0.0-1 amd64 libvirt Python 3 bindings ii virtnbdbackup 1.9.15-1 all Backup utility for libvirt Any other ideas how to back up running VMs properly? Thanks
