Re: Backup of vm disk images

2020-05-05 Thread Anders Östling
Thanks Peter and Stefan for enlightening me! On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:58 AM Peter Krempa wrote: > > One thing to note though is that the backup integration is not entirely > finished in libvirt and thus in a 'tech-preview' state. Some > interactions corrupt the state for incremental backups. >

Re: Backup of vm disk images

2020-05-04 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 04:05:47PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:51:09AM +0200, Anders Östling wrote: Hi Anders, > > I am fighting to understand the difference between backing up a VM by > > using a regular copy vs using the virsh blockcopy command. tl;dr: While 'blo

Re: Backup of vm disk images

2020-05-04 Thread Peter Krempa
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 16:05:47 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:51:09AM +0200, Anders Östling wrote: > > I am fighting to understand the difference between backing up a VM by > > using a regular copy vs using the virsh blockcopy command. > > What I want to do is to suspe

Re: Backup of vm disk images

2020-05-01 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:51:09AM +0200, Anders Östling wrote: > I am fighting to understand the difference between backing up a VM by > using a regular copy vs using the virsh blockcopy command. > What I want to do is to suspend the vm, copy the XML and .QCOW2 files > and then resume the vm again