Oracle VM Manager: Backing Up

Before uninstalling, moving the VM Server from one location to another OR any other major change we would want to backup the Oracle VM Manager.

Let's learn how to back up and restore the Oracle VM Manager.

Backing up Oracle VM Manager

Ensure that all of our Oracle VM Servers are either running OR powered off. Any machine lost in space, such as VM Servers that are not reporting any state and could be rebooting or simply not communicating with the VM Agent, will not be taken in the backup.

Now to backup the Oracle VM Manager, perform the following steps:

• Log on to Oracle VM Manager as root.
• Back up Oracle VM Manager resources which reside on the VM Servers. They could be VM Images in the /OVS/running_pool, VM templates in /OVS/seed_pool, or ISO files in /OVS/iso_pool. You obviously don't have to do the following if you already have an enterprise backup solution in place in your Data Center.
• Backup Oracle VM Manager data by executing the following:
      cd /opt/ovs-manager-2.1/bin
      sh backup.sh
• Here upon the following prompt enter 1 to backup data:

Please enter the choice: [1|2]
1. Back up Oracle VM Manager,
2. Restore Oracle VM Manager

• Enter the necessary information such as database account OVS, location of
  dump, and log file:

Back up data now ...
Please enter the password for database account 'OVS':
Please specify the path for dump file?
Please specify the path for log file?

And voila the Oracle VM Manager backup in created. A backup is worthless if it cannot be restored, so let's try restoring a recently created backup.