[pve-devel] Incremental backups

2014-09-19 Thread Eneko Lacunza
Hi all, I just found out about this blog: http://ayufan.eu/projects/proxmox-ve-differential-backups/ You surely know about it; I was curious about the reasons to reject the patches and also about whether there are any plans for incremental or differential backups. I think it would be a popular

Re: [pve-devel] Incremental backups

2014-09-19 Thread Dietmar Maurer
> If you're pointing to this thread: > http://pve.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2012-August/thread.html#3412 > > I hardly see any discussion, just a no-statement with a vague "we want to keep > vzdump simple" This is a quite good reasons! Besides, I would also want to be able to do backup of

Re: [pve-devel] Incremental backups

2014-09-19 Thread Eneko Lacunza
Hi Kamil, Thanks for the clarification. It's refreshing to see there is a technical reason for this and a solution is in the works. For me, currently the major problem with the patches is that they make more difficult to maintain the patched proxmoxes; we have clients that can afford the ine

Re: [pve-devel] Incremental backups

2014-09-19 Thread Martin Maurer
Hi, > I just found out about this blog: > http://ayufan.eu/projects/proxmox-ve-differential-backups/ > > You surely know about it; I was curious about the reasons to reject the > patches > and also about whether there are any plans for incremental or differential > backups. I think it would be a

Re: [pve-devel] Incremental backups

2014-09-19 Thread Eneko Lacunza
Hi Martin, On 19/09/14 11:07, Martin Maurer wrote: I just found out about this blog: http://ayufan.eu/projects/proxmox-ve-differential-backups/ You surely know about it; I was curious about the reasons to reject the patches and also about whether there are any plans for incremental or different

Re: [pve-devel] Incremental backups

2014-09-19 Thread Kamil Trzciński
Hi Eneko, My patches try to add one of missing features, but the way it works is not very efficient, because it uses xdelta3 to create differential. It not only uses extra CPU cycle, but also requires you to read previously done backup. In the future it should be done on qemu level. Qemu should tr

Re: [pve-devel] Incremental backups

2014-09-19 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
Hi, last patches I have found are here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-03/msg05250.html - Mail original - De: "Kamil Trzciński" À: "Eneko Lacunza" Cc: pve-devel@pve.proxmox.com Envoyé: Vendredi 19 Septembre 2014 11:57:13 Objet: Re: [pv