From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Zhang Haoyu <zhanghy@sangfor.com.cn>,
Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyapc@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [question] incremental backup a running vm
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:29:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C608F4.4020905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201501260907583380898@sangfor.com.cn>
On 26/01/2015 02:07, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
> Hi, Kashyap
> I've tried ‘drive_backup’ via QMP,
> but the snapshots were missed to backup to destination,
> I think the reason is that backup_run() only copy the
> guest data regarding qcow2 image.
Yes, that's the case.
QEMU cannot still access internal snapshots while the file is open.
External snapshots are opened read-only, and can be copied with "cp"
while QEMU is running.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-26 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 10:32 [Qemu-devel] [question] incremental backup a running vm Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-21 10:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-22 23:29 ` Kashyap Chamarthy
2015-01-26 1:07 ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-26 9:29 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-01-26 11:13 ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-26 11:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-01-26 12:25 ` Zhang Haoyu
2015-01-23 11:09 ` Kashyap Chamarthy
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