On 9/10/20 9:58 AM, Derek Jarvis wrote:
I read about the Incremental Backup feature here:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/IncrementalBackup
Some of this seems a bit "proof of concept" that requires more
implementation. Is there an UI available for this, either command prompt
or GUI, to simplify this process?
It's a very low-level API; but we don't expect that end-users interface
directly with it, no. The ease-of-use side of it would come from libvirt
or other utilities.
I didn't work on the libvirt portions, but I see some evidence of it
over at https://libvirt.org/formatcheckpoint.html and at
https://libvirt.org/kbase/incrementalbackupinternals.html
My use case is I want to be able to migrate a VM between different
servers and I want to speed this up by only sending the disk changes.
The idea is that each server would maintain the "last known" state of
the disk and would be sent the incremental changes from the other server
when it is taking ownership of it. For me, one server is a proxmox
instance, and the other "server" is actually my laptop running
virt-manager.
Is there anything available to simplify this process?
