@Biggen You can do this via cli...see if this doc is helpful (just make sure to back/move/copy any data before performing these steps): https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131328

Hi,

I see it's not possible to do Delta and DR backups as part of one backup job and I'm wondering what down side if I setup a Delta backup job and a separate backup job for DR. What happens if both backups run concurrently? Could that do any harm on the running VM or xcp-ng host?

Here is what I currently have:

@Marc-pezin, couldn't match the correct font but hopefully this helps.

@olivierlambert , I didn't know that. Thank you! The docs state "initial full backup during a weekend..." w/ the example graphic above that statement showing .xva on Sunday and then incremental .vha during the week:

@olivierlambert, I thought delta backups are just incremental difference which requires the XVA full backup to be able to restore a VM?

Thanks @olivierlambert !

I was able to convert a xva to raw using qemu-img but trying to importing it to digitalocean failed. I think I need to read up on cloud-init and how to set it up on a running centos7 vm. But not sure if those settings will survive the conversion from xva to raw.

My ultimate goal is to be able to take a xcp-ng vm and be able to run it on a cloud provider (like aws, google, digitalocean, etc) during a disaster while we rebuild our xcp-ng nodes.

Hi,

Have a few questions which I'm hoping someone can help me answer:

1. How do I match a backup to a VM? On the backup server, I see the following directories but none of these match any vm uuid:
   

2. Is there a way to change the file format the backups are stored from xva to one of these formats: VHDX, VDI, VMDK or Raw?

I'm trying to weekly copy the VM backups to Digital Ocean and have them there in case of a disaster recovery where I can have them easily spun up to minimize downtime. I welcome others feedback if they've done this w/ other cloud providers.

Thank You,

SW

HI @olivierlambert ,

I'm using XO Community compiled from sources version 5.54.0.

Thx,

SW

Edit: I just updated from 5.54.0 to 5.59.0 to see if this will fix the issue.

Hello,

In XO, the backup retention is set to 3 however XCP-ng center shows there are 9 VMs while XO only shows 3 backups:

In XO restore, I see only 3 full backups:

But in XCP-ng Center, I see 9 backups:

Any ideas what could be causing this? I've been manually deleting the old backups via XCP-ng center.

Thanks,

SW

@Biggen You can do this via cli...see if this doc is helpful (just make sure to back/move/copy any data before performing these steps): https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131328

Hi,

Is there any harm to leaving the former experimental EXT4 SR driver installed for anyone who has it installed? I understand and agree with sr-create command for ext4 will fail for new SR. I think this might be a better solution for us who used the experimental ext4 and don't want to move, destroy and copy back all VMs, etc.