From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas-U3NvvseaQwJn68oJJulU0Q@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Backing Up virtual Machines
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:37:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46262D15.6060700@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070418142311.GB13284-vCsBGSbFJi4XOLVLeuLo0p3xXOyapcuTYd9OGiuxSwg@public.gmane.org>
Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello,
> with VMWare ESX Server you have VMware Consolidated Backup. Which
> basically does the following:
>
> - Do a Snapshot.
> - Pull an atomic state of the disks.
> - Delete the Snapshot.
>
> Does somone does that with kvm or qemu already and maybe has a script
> for me or points me to something I can use. I want to backup running
> virtual machines from the *host* Operating System.
>
It should be easily doable. Start qemu with the monitor listening on a
unix domain socket, then use socat (or however it's called) to issue the
snapshot creation and deletion commands.
It may also be doable with virsh, provided it exposes the snapshot
capabilities.
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2007-04-18 14:23 Backing Up virtual Machines Thomas Glanzmann
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