Re: [libvirt-users] how "safe" is blockcommit ?

2018-10-12 Thread Lentes, Bernd
> - On Sep 7, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: > >> On 09/07/2018 12:06 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> currently i'm following >>> https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit. I 'm >>> playing around with it and it seems to be quite

Re: [libvirt-users] how "safe" is blockcommit ?

2018-09-10 Thread Lentes, Bernd
- On Sep 7, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: > On 09/07/2018 12:06 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> currently i'm following >> https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit. I 'm >> playing around with it and it seems to be quite nice. >>

Re: [libvirt-users] how "safe" is blockcommit ?

2018-09-10 Thread Peter Krempa
On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 19:28:47 +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 07-09-2018 21:26 Eric Blake ha scritto: [...] > > > - blockcommit the overlay: blockcommit guest /path/to/testsn > > > --active --wait --verbose --pivot > > > - delete the snapshot: snapshot-delete guest --snapshotname testsn > >

Re: [libvirt-users] how "safe" is blockcommit ?

2018-09-08 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 07-09-2018 21:26 Eric Blake ha scritto: We're also trying to add support for incremental backups into a future version of libvirt on top of the qemu 3.0 feature of persistent bitmaps in qcow2 images, which could indeed guarantee that you transfer only the portions of the guest disk that were

Re: [libvirt-users] how "safe" is blockcommit ?

2018-09-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/07/2018 12:06 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: Hi, currently i'm following https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit. I 'm playing around with it and it seems to be quite nice. What i want is a daily consistent backup of my image file of the guest. I have the idea

[libvirt-users] how "safe" is blockcommit ?

2018-09-07 Thread Lentes, Bernd
Hi, currently i'm following https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit. I 'm playing around with it and it seems to be quite nice. What i want is a daily consistent backup of my image file of the guest. I have the idea of the following procedure: - Shutdown the