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billions-diamond-53716

10/16/2022, 12:26 AM
Hi Team, Hoping someone can point me in the correct direction. Im wanting to use Harvester to replace VMWare in my future datacenters. Ive setup a homelab cluster and the biggest issues I notice with Harvester (for the use of my staff/business) are around Backups. Specifically want to see the ability to snapshot VM’s for updates and the ability to connect Enterprise Backup systems (Veeam specifically) to able to run scheduled backups of the VM’s. What is everyone else doing in this space as its a bit of a dealbreaker at the moment. Cheers All!
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better-garage-30620

10/17/2022, 5:38 PM
i've been wondering exactly this myself. it looks like the underlying longhorn storage has a number of built-in options (https://longhorn.io/docs/1.3.1/snapshots-and-backups/scheduling-backups-and-snapshots/), but i would assume there are no 3rd-party integrations at this point.
there is also built-in support in harvester for VM backups. https://docs.harvesterhci.io/v1.0/vm/backup-restore/
it doesn't look like harvester supports snapshots, scheduled backups, etc. though. it seems like there needs to be some integration between harvester and longhorn's built-in backups.
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ancient-pizza-13099

10/20/2022, 10:04 AM
scheduled backup
is not supported yet. cc @ancient-pilot-51731 @prehistoric-balloon-31801
snapshot
is also not supported in
Harvester UI
as of v1.1.0
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billions-diamond-53716

10/20/2022, 7:20 PM
Thanks guys, unfortunately until both of these these things are supported, in my opinion this project isnt production ready. Its nice, Longhorn is cool, the UI is “interesting” from a VM Standpoint, but without proper backup abilities it wont get sign-off as a fit for purpose production system. Cheers All.
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wonderful-pizza-30919

10/22/2022, 10:09 PM
Have you considered the following two products? 1. Ark - disaster recovery backup and restore by Heptio 2. MinIO
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billions-diamond-53716

10/25/2022, 11:14 PM
Velero (former Heptio Ark) looks interesting… however I think the best option here (caveat - without trying it yet) could be Kastens K10 https://www.kasten.io
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