@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ instances to any shared storage (NAS). It is based on `libvirt push backup mode
2727to take full instance backups (qcow2) and requires libvirt-7.2.0 and QEMU-4.2,
2828or high versions on the KVM hosts.
2929
30- Currently, only backup of VMs from the NFS-based Primary Storage are tested to work.
31- You can also make backups of CEPH-based VMs, but restoring is not possible yet.
30+ Currently, only backup of VMs from the NFS, CEPH, Shared Mountpoint (backed by NFS)
31+ and local storage based Primary Storage are tested to work. All other Primary Storages
32+ are not tested, backups on them may not work.
3233
3334The NAS B&R plugin requires admin to first add backup repositories which are
3435network-attached storage (shared storage). It supports NFS, CIFS/Samba and CephFS.
@@ -130,8 +131,10 @@ such as OpenSUSE 15, Debian 11 and Debian 12.
130131
131132Instance backups are full disk backups and limited by libvirt's ability to
132133initiate and handle backup. All such backups are exported and stored in qcow2
133- format. Due to this, restore operation are supported for volumes of type qcow2
134- and limited to NFS and local storage based primary storage pools.
134+ format only. Due to this, restore operation for volumes of type raw, on CEPH based
135+ primary storage pools, are converted from qcow2 to raw format using qemu-img convert.
136+ Restore operation for volumes of type qcow2, on NFS and local storage based primary
137+ storage pools, does not need such conversion as these can be directly copied.
135138
136139For running instances, their disks (of any format/storage type) are backed up by
137140libvirtd's push based efficient-backup mechanism exported as qcow2 disks on the
@@ -141,8 +144,8 @@ For stopped instances, `qemu-img` is used to convert and export full-disk backup
141144in qcow2 format to the backup repository.
142145
143146For restore operations, the KVM instance must be stopped in CloudStack.
144- Currently, only volume(s) restoration is supported only to NFS and local storage
145- based primary storage pools, and restored volumes are fully backed disks (i.e.
147+ Currently, only volume(s) restoration is supported only to NFS, CEPH, Shared Mountpoint (backed by NFS)
148+ and local storage based primary storage pools, and restored volumes are fully backed disks (i.e.
146149not using any backing template file).
147150
148151Backup and restore operations are not fully supported for CKS cluster instances and should
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