# Backup Opennebula VMs **URL:** \ **Category:** Integration Support\ **Created:** [October 24, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153 "2017-10-24T16:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UAnton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/uanton/32/6309_2.png) [@UAnton](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/UAnton)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/1 "2017-10-24T16:57:58Z")
Hi, Someone has a normal system for backup VM (KVM) for OpenNebula? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![feldsam](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/feldsam/32/4441_2.png) [@feldsam](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/feldsam)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/2 "2017-10-24T18:36:22Z")
Hello UAnton, I wrote about that here [Backup live VMs with snapshots (--quiesce --atomic)](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-live-vms-with-snapshots-quiesce-atomic/4471/12?u=feldsam) ---
**Author:** ![atodorov\_storpool](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/atodorov_storpool/32/5327_2.png) [@atodorov\_storpool](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/atodorov_storpool)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/3 "2017-10-25T20:16:54Z")
Hi Anton, The propper backup interface in OpenNebula is filled as feature [#5498](https://dev.opennebula.org/issues/5498) in the OpenNebula’s dev portal. Meanwhile in addon-sorpool we are [re-purposing](https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-storpool/blob/master/docs/advanced_configuration.md#re-configure-the-vm-snapshot-to-do-atomic-disk-snapshots) the _VM snapshot_ interface to be used for managing atomic StorPool snapshots as backups. It has its issues but the interface is currently available, could be used by the end users, there are snaphots limits implemented in the storage driver and the disk resize function is not locked for the snapshots of this interface 😉 Best Regards, Anton Todorov ---
**Author:** ![FoxSibirsky](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/foxsibirsky/32/4949_2.png) [@FoxSibirsky](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/FoxSibirsky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/4 "2017-10-31T02:26:19Z")
Hi > [@VM Backup best practice](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/vm-backup-best-practice/2816/4): > > No problem: backup list - what we going to save (I’m going to start 2 queues, so I have 2 lists) backup\_start.sh - Parent script, that work with list of backup disks vm’s (It calls from cron.d) vm\_disk\_dump.sh - Saves vm’s disk in image store, with \*.bak name vm\_disk\_move.sh - Finds all \*.bak images and transfer its to backup store Here link to download It’s a quite dirty method, but I use it successfully. Be careful with databases and something like this. ---
**Author:** ![UAnton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/uanton/32/6309_2.png) [@UAnton](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/UAnton)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/5 "2017-10-31T09:03:02Z")
Hello, Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![christian.ruoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@christian.ruoff](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/christian.ruoff)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/6 "2018-06-11T11:05:00Z")
Hi Guys, this is Christian from SEP. We developed a Snapshot-Backup solution for OpenNebula. We designed it for two big customers and it works great! Feel free to ask me more about it. Christian ---
**Author:** ![UAnton](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/uanton/32/6309_2.png) [@UAnton](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/UAnton)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/7 "2018-06-13T16:16:02Z")
Hello! Please provide more info. ---
**Author:** ![christian.ruoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@christian.ruoff](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/christian.ruoff)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/8 "2018-06-29T18:24:33Z")
Hy Anton. You can get some information here at [https://www.sep.de/sep-sesam/virtual-machine/](https://www.sep.de/sep-sesam/virtual-machine/) ++ [https://wiki.sep.de/wiki/index.php/4\_4\_3\_Tigon:OpenNebula\_Backup](https://wiki.sep.de/wiki/index.php/4_4_3_Tigon:OpenNebula_Backup) you can contact me any time at [cr@sep.de](mailto:cr@sep.de) Hope that helps 😉 Christian ---
**Author:** ![FrancJP](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.opennebula.io/francjp/32/7690_2.png) [@FrancJP](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/FrancJP)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/backup-opennebula-vms/5153/9 "2025-06-25T16:05:54Z")
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