Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello, > with VMWare ESX Server you have VMware Consolidated Backup. Which > basically does the following: > > - Do a Snapshot. > - Pull an atomic state of the disks. > - Delete the Snapshot. > > Does somone does that with kvm or qemu already and maybe has a script > for me or points me to something I can use. I want to backup running > virtual machines from the *host* Operating System. >
It should be easily doable. Start qemu with the monitor listening on a unix domain socket, then use socat (or however it's called) to issue the snapshot creation and deletion commands. It may also be doable with virsh, provided it exposes the snapshot capabilities. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
