Anno domini 2019 Tue, 19 Nov 05:21:22 -0600 hal scripsit: > Is anyone doing QEMU/KVM incremental backups of a running VM? I'm trying > to find some info on how best to accomplish the backup as well as a > restore. > > What I want is to run my VM on a single SSD but take an incremental > snapshot of the VM every few hours, saving it to SATA RAID. I only want > to save what's changed (delta image?) and not an entire copy of the > image each time. > > I find a lot of info like the link[1] below showing how to properly > snapshot and copy the base image, but not a lot showing how to actually > recover if I need to restore. Is it just a matter of first saving > the base image, and then saving every snapshot after that? Combining > them with the `blockcommit` command if I need to restore?
I do it on ZFS with snapshots. Works quite nice :) Nik > > Thanks > > [1] > https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
