From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Online image backup
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:02:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47436778.4060806@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fhug36$564$1@ger.gmane.org>
Matteo Bertini wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> is there any support for an online image backup? Or some direction to
> have it?
>
> Imagine I have an emulated server. How can I make an online backup of
> the server state?
>
> If I'm right in the actual design this is very hard.
>
> Or there are some image internals update rules that permit a consistent
> copy possible?
It should not be difficult provided the VM is using the QEMU qcow2 image
format (doing a backup can be seen as a kind of snapshot).
Fabrice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-20 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-20 11:23 [Qemu-devel] Online image backup Matteo Bertini
2007-11-20 23:02 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2007-11-22 10:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Matteo Bertini
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-05 14:12 [Qemu-devel] " Lorenzo Mancini
2007-12-05 21:25 ` Ricardo Almeida
2007-12-10 10:45 ` Lorenzo Mancini
2007-12-10 17:41 ` Ricardo Almeida
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