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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] add backup related monitor commands
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:16:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50ACFE58.8000606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353488464-82756-4-git-send-email-dietmar@proxmox.com>

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On 11/21/2012 02:01 AM, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> We currently create 'vma' archives without any configuration inside.
> Future versions may support other formats...
> 
> Another option would be to simply dump <devid,cluster_num,cluster_data> to
> the output fh (pipe), and an external binary saves the data. That way we
> could move the whole archive format related code out of qemu.
> 

> +++ b/qapi-schema.json
> @@ -357,6 +357,13 @@
>  ##
>  { 'type': 'EventInfo', 'data': {'name': 'str'} }
>  
> +
> +{ 'type': 'BackupStatus',
> +  'data': {'*status': 'str', '*errmsg': 'str', '*total': 'int',
> +           '*transferred': 'int', '*zero-bytes': 'int',
> +           '*start-time': 'int', '*end-time': 'int',
> +           '*backupfile': 'str', '*uuid': 'str' } }
> +

Missing documentation for what all these fields mean.

>  ##
>  # @query-events:
>  #
> @@ -1764,6 +1771,45 @@
>    'data': { 'path': 'str' },
>    'returns': [ 'ObjectPropertyInfo' ] }
>  
> +
> +##
> +# @backup:
> +#
> +# Starts a VM backup.
> +#
> +# @backupfile: the backup file name
> +#
> +# @speed:  #optional the maximum speed, in bytes per second
> +#
> +# Returns: the uuid of the backup job
> +#

Needs to mention when it was introduced (at best, it will be since 1.4).

> +##
> +{ 'command': 'backup', 'data': { 'backupfile': 'str', '*devlist': 'str',
> +                                 '*speed': 'int' },
> +  'returns': 'str' }
> +
> +##
> +# @query-backup
> +#
> +# Returns information about current/last backup task.
> +#
> +# Returns: @BackupStatus
> +#
> +##
> +{ 'command': 'query-backup', 'returns': 'BackupStatus' }
> +
> +##
> +# @backup_cancel

s/_/-/, you should prefer dashes in QMP

> +#
> +# Cancel the current executing backup process.
> +#
> +# Returns: nothing on success
> +#
> +# Notes: This command succeeds even if there is no backup process running.
> +#
> +##
> +{ 'command': 'backup_cancel' }
> +

You are basically adding a new asynchronous job.  Do you really need to
add a 'backup-cancel' command, or should we be reusing a generic
framework for canceling arbitrary jobs?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-21 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-21  9:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] RFC: Efficient VM backup for qemu (v1) Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] add basic backup support to block driver Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 11:25   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 11:29     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  8:56     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] introduce new vma archive format Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21 16:06   ` Eric Blake
2012-11-21 17:56     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] add backup related monitor commands Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21 16:16   ` Eric Blake [this message]
2012-11-21 17:59     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21 18:49     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21  9:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] add regression tests for backup Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21 10:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] RFC: Efficient VM backup for qemu (v1) Kevin Wolf
2012-11-21 11:10   ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21 12:37     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-11-21 13:23       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-23  7:42         ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  9:18           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-23  9:28             ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  8:12         ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  9:01           ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  9:05             ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  9:15               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-23  9:17                 ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  9:55               ` Kevin Wolf
2012-11-23 10:55                 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-11-21 13:25       ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21 13:58         ` Kevin Wolf
2012-11-21 15:47           ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  7:38       ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  9:08         ` Kevin Wolf
2012-11-23  9:21           ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  9:31             ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23 10:29               ` Kevin Wolf
2012-11-26  5:51                 ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-26 12:07                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-27  6:20                     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-27  7:15                       ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-27  8:48                         ` Kevin Wolf
2012-11-27 10:24                           ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-21 11:23   ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 11:12 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 11:26   ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 12:44     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 12:55       ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 15:30         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 15:58           ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 17:02             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 17:34               ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 11:40   ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 15:42     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 12:00   ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 15:45     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 15:56       ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 16:37         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 12:03   ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 17:16   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 17:46     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  5:23       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-23  5:25         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-23  6:18           ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  6:13         ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 17:50     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  5:21       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-22 18:05     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-23  5:19       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-11-23  6:05         ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-22 18:15     ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-27 10:09 ` Wenchao Xia
2012-11-27 10:37   ` Dietmar Maurer
2012-11-28  9:39     ` Wenchao Xia
2012-11-28 11:08       ` Dietmar Maurer

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