On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:36:11AM +0200, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: [...] > How can drive-backup be used? > ----------------------------- > The simplest use-case is to copy a point-in-time snapshot to a local file. > > More advanced users may wish to make the target an NBD URL. The NBD server > listening on the other side can process the backup writes any way it wishes. > I > previously posted an RFC series with a backup server that streamed Dietmar's > VMA backup archive format.
I'm guessing the answer is no, but thought I would ask: Is there any way to use this to do point-in-time inspection of guests? AFAICT the only way to do it would be to make a complete copy of a guest disk in another file. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
