From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, dietmar@proxmox.com, imain@redhat.com,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] block: drive-backup live backup command
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 21:30:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51992866.50902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130519164755.GA18311@redhat.com>
Il 19/05/2013 18:47, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto:
>> >
>> > 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?
Almost, and even for an atomic copy of multiple disks. All that is left
is to create the copy with the disk as a backing file, and switch the
backing file at the end of the copy. It is a very simple change on top
of these patches.
Paolo
> AFAICT the only way to do it would be to make a complete copy of a
> guest disk in another file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-19 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-16 8:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] block: drive-backup live backup command Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/8] block: add bdrv_add_before_write_notifier() Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] block: add basic backup support to block driver Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-22 9:38 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-05-22 9:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-22 9:56 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-05-22 13:58 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-22 14:08 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-05-16 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/8] block: add drive-backup QMP command Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 19:11 ` Eric Blake
2013-05-22 9:53 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-05-22 14:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/8] qemu-iotests: add 055 drive-backup test case Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-22 11:19 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-05-22 14:34 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/8] blockdev: rename BlkTransactionStates to singular Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/8] blockdev: add DriveBackup transaction Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 19:21 ` Eric Blake
2013-05-17 7:02 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] blockdev: add Abort transaction Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-16 19:23 ` Eric Blake
2013-05-16 8:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 8/8] qemu-iotests: test 'drive-backup' transaction in 055 Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-19 16:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] block: drive-backup live backup command Richard W.M. Jones
2013-05-19 19:30 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-05-19 19:41 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-05-22 11:23 ` Kevin Wolf
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