similar to: backup KVM qcow2 over btrfs or zfs

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thank you a lot for your reply; > You should really consider using libvirt live snapshots. With new > enough libvirt and qemu, you can even get optimal behavior with no guest > downtime. This topic comes up frequently on the list; for example, a > quick search found this in the archives: > >

On 11/06/2014 03:45 PM, Francesco Morosinotto wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to implement in the non profit organization where I work a > backup strategy for our VMs. > > At the moment I weekly backup the machine (on sunday nights) by stopping > the vm, making a snapshot, exporting the xml descriptor file and syncing > these files to a remote backup server.

I am experimenting with the blockcopy command, and after figuring out how to integrate qemu-nbd, nbd-client and dumpxml/undefine/blockcopy/define/et. al. I have one remaining question: What's the point? The "replication" disk file is not, from what I can ascertain, bootable. I expect this operation to create a pristine copy of my source qcow2 file (at a given point in time)

Dear all, Please let me start by indicating that I am not from a technical background, so please be gentle and patient with me. I am trying to get a snapshot from my virtual machines (vm) and the following command works for all of them bar one: # virsh snapshot-create-as --quiesce --no-metadata --domain myvm myvm-state --diskspec vda,file=overlay.qcow2 --disk-only --atomic The only exception is

Hi, currently i'm following https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit. I 'm playing around with it and it seems to be quite nice. What i want is a daily consistent backup of my image file of the guest. I have the idea of the following procedure: - Shutdown the guest (i can live with a downtime of a few minutes, it will happen in the night). And i think

Hi! I need to convert a KVM virtual machine from LVM to a qcow2 image, and wonder if this is the best way to do it (*1): [$] qemu-img convert -O qcow2 /dev/vg_name/lv_name/ /var/lib/libvirt/images/image_name.qcow2 If this is the best way to do this, will this keep the information on: /dev/vg_name/lv_name/ untouched? Thanks, and please point me towards another mailing list if this it not right

Hi all, I guess my question is stupid and has been asked a thousand times but i was wondering if it's possible to do the following things: - Cloning of a running virtual machine (hot copy) - Migrate a physical server to a virtual one. I googled a bit and am not able to find the answers. Thanks. Regards, Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi everyone! I use the libvirt(version: 1.2.2) and QEMU(version: 2.2.1) to test qemu snapshot features: I tried virsh blockcommit when VM offline, the virsh blockcommit failed: the error messase as below: error: Requested operation is not valid: domain is not running when I start the VM, the virsh blockcommit work fine! my question is：we need

Hi, i read that virsh uses internally qemu-img (http://serverfault.com/questions/692435/qemu-img-snapshot-on-live-vm). Is that true ? so snapshotting a running vm with virsh or qemu-img is the same ? Bernd -- Bernd Lentes Systemadministration institute of developmental genetics Gebäude 35.34 - Raum 208 HelmholtzZentrum München bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de phone: +49 (0)89 3187 1241

Hi Kashyap Chamarthy: thank you very much for answer my question: 一： lead to VM filesystem becoming read-only 1： test case it lead to VM filesystem becoming read-only test case as follows: we want to snapshot for VM , to obtain VM incremental data，and use virsh blockcommit，qemu-img commit，qemu-img rebase to shorten snapshot chain. Details are as follows（when VM running state， we perform the

----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com> To: "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: virt-devel@redhat.com, "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 9:20:51 AM Subject: [virt-devel] btrfs NOCOW for VM disk images Hi, In upstream QEMU we''re discussing patches that set the NOCOW flag

----- On Sep 7, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com wrote: > On 09/07/2018 12:06 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> currently i'm following >> https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit. I 'm >> playing around with it and it seems to be quite nice. >> What i want is a daily consistent backup of my image file

Hi * Trying to get drive-backup command, getting permission denied. :( sudo virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp my-instance --cmd drive_backup drive-virtio-disk0 /tmp/foo.vda.img Looks like apparmor issue. What can I modify to make this work ? * Couple of other questions drive-backup : * The doc seems to claim that it gives a point in time copy of

Hi. I'm following here a conversation that was initiated on Kashyap's website [1]. We have a server we use as a host for virtual machines using KVM (virt-manager used for VM creation) and we would like to setup VM backups. Basically, we're thinking of a backup schedule like "keep 7 daily and 4 weekly backups". We'd rather not shutdown the VM every day so live backups

Hi Eric. Thank you so much for your quick and relieving answer. Le 2015-09-11 17:05, Eric Blake a écrit : > Yes, using active block-commit is the ideal way to perform a live backup. Great. > Yep, that about covers it. Note that the --quiesce step in snapshot > creation requires qemu-guest-agent running in the guest, and that you > trust interaction with your guest. Yes, I think

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 02:08:41PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:52 AM, Jd wrote: > > Hi > > > > * Trying to get drive-backup command, getting permission denied. :( > > > > sudo virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp my-instance --cmd > > drive_backup drive-virtio-disk0 /tmp/foo.vda.img > > Ouch. qemu-monitor-command is explicitly

Hi, i'd like to create snapshots of my running vm's. I have several hosts with SLES11 SP4 64bit. I use libvirt 1.2.5-7.1 . VM's are Windows 7, SLES, Ubuntu, Opensuse. I use raw files for the vm's. I try to orientate myself by http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit . The hosts are backuped every night by a network based backup solution (Legato). My

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Blake" <eblake@redhat.com> To: "Andrew Martin" > <amartin@xes-inc.com>, libvirt-users@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 > 5:44:54 PM Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Live snapshots of a single block > device > > On 05/22/2014 04:31 PM, Andrew Martin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > [Can you

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 07:32:06PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/10/2014 11:37 AM, Jd wrote: > > Hi > > Looking in to implementing (CBT like) delta backup for KVM. > > Not quite sure what you mean by CBT. > > > > > The following looks promising..(last paragraph) > > http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Snapshots2 > > > > Libvirt

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Lentes, Bernd [mailto:bernd.lentes@helmholtz-muenchen.de] > Verzonden: donderdag 3 december 2015 13:54 > Aan: libvirt-ML > CC: Dominique Ramaekers > Onderwerp: RE: snapshot of running vm's > > > ... > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > i have inserted: > > > > > > <channel