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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 12:28:34 +0100 |
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On 26/01/2015 12:13, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
> Thanks, Paolo,
> but too many internal snapshots were saved by customers,
> switching to external snapshot mechanism has significant impaction
> on subsequent upgrade.
In that case, patches are welcome. :)
> Another problem:
> drive_backup just implement one time backup,
> but I want VMWare's VDP-like backup mechanism.
> The initial backup of a virtual machine takes comparatively more time,
> because all of the data for that virtual machine is being backed up.
> Subsequent backups of the same virtual machine take less time, because
> changed block tracking (log dirty) mechanism is used to only backup the dirty
> data.
> After inittial backup done, even the VM shutdown, but subsequent backup also
> only
> copy the changed data.
As mentioned before, patches for this are on the list.
Paolo