Hello one and all.
Just wanted to check out the new feature domainbackup but having trouble
to configure it. I thought I just have to put
<domainbackup>
<disks>
<disk name='vda' type='file'>
<target file='/var/lib/libvirt/jitsi'/>
<driver type='raw'/>
</disk>
</disks>
</domainbackup>
at the top level of my domain xml file but that does not seem to work. I
get:
error: XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to
validate doc against /usr/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng
Element domain has extra content: domainbackup
Can someone please push me in the right direction?
cheers, t.
Got a little bit further. "virsh backup-begin jitsi jitsi-backup.xml" works and I have a backup file now. VM was running all the time. Question. Is it save to use this function this way? Currently I do: virsh snapshot-create-as --domain jitsi weekly --diskspec vda,file=/var/lib/libvirt/jitsi/jitsi_weekly.qcow2-$(date +%Y-%m-%d) --disk-only --atomic --no-metadata ncftpput -V -F -d ... virsh blockcommit jitsi vda --active --verbose --pivot So while the backup is being written there is no write operation happening to the file. Any thoughts? cheers, t. On 2021-04-07 19:03, Thomas Stein wrote:> Hello one and all. > > Just wanted to check out the new feature domainbackup but having > trouble to configure it. I thought I just have to put > > <domainbackup> > <disks> > <disk name='vda' type='file'> > <target file='/var/lib/libvirt/jitsi'/> > <driver type='raw'/> > </disk> > </disks> > </domainbackup> > > at the top level of my domain xml file but that does not seem to work. > I get: > > error: XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to > validate doc against /usr/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng > Element domain has extra content: domainbackup > > Can someone please push me in the right direction? > > cheers, t.
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 19:03:21 +0200, Thomas Stein wrote:> Hello one and all. > > Just wanted to check out the new feature domainbackup but having trouble to > configure it. I thought I just have to put > > <domainbackup> > <disks> > <disk name='vda' type='file'> > <target file='/var/lib/libvirt/jitsi'/> > <driver type='raw'/> > </disk> > </disks> > </domainbackup> > > at the top level of my domain xml file but that does not seem to work. I > get: > > error: XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to validate > doc against /usr/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng > Element domain has extra content: domainbackupThat's not how it's used, if you want to create a backup you have to use the virDomainBackupBegin API e.g. via `virsh backup-begin VMNAME /path/to/backup.xml`. Your backup xml file seems to look correct.