Re: Backup and restore doubts

[Rohit Yadav <bh...@apache.org>]

2013/3/29 Joaquin Angel Alonso Alvarez <ja...@izertis.com>

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> If for whatever reason one of the virtual routers VM is destroyed,
> Cloudstack will restart it again with all the rules intact? Are the virtual
> router configurations saved on the DB so if I restore a previous copy of
> the DB the VR is back with the rules at that point?
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Yes, rules will be intact and they are stored in the DB. Provided your
physical deployment, routes, IPs, hosts, etc. are there as in the DB that
would work.


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> Same with the customer instances, are the configurations saved onto the DB
> and is it possible to restore a backup and then apply the snapshots to get
> the VM on a previous state?
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Yes, that could work but I know ten ways why and how that would fail. I
know people who have been doing a lot of recovery by
directly manipulating the database which works for them but it's not
advised.


> I´ve notice that if I create a VM from the hypervisor CS will delete it,
> so I suppose if the VM details are on the DB and the VM is recovered from a
> backup will not be deleted, is that right?
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Not sure, but if you a backup image, import it as a template and deploy
using it.

Cheers.


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