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Re: [Qemu-devel] [question] incremental backup a running vm
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [question] incremental backup a running vm |
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Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:29:24 +0100 |
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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