The stats reported for a blockjob which is member of a domain pull backup refer to the utilization of the scratch file rather than the progress of the backup as the progress of the backup depends on the client. Note this quirk in the docs. Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/libvirt-domain.c | 4 ++++ tools/virsh.pod | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/libvirt-domain.c b/src/libvirt-domain.c index ec402ba5c0..bb95ce142b 100644 --- a/src/libvirt-domain.c +++ b/src/libvirt-domain.c @@ -9949,6 +9949,10 @@ virDomainBlockJobAbort(virDomainPtr dom, const char *disk, * and was no-op. In this case libvirt reports cur = 1 and end = 1. * Since 2.3.0. * + * Note that the progress reported for blockjobs corresponding to a pull-mode + * backup don't report progress of the backup but rather usage of temporary + * space required for the backup. + * * Returns -1 in case of failure, 0 when nothing found, 1 when info was found. */ int diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index 0d3d432d21..f2077c48ef 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -994,6 +994,10 @@ I<--bytes> with a scaled value permits a finer granularity to be selected. A scaled value used without I<--bytes> will be rounded down to MiB/s. Note that the I<--bytes> may be unsupported by the hypervisor. +Note that the progress reported for blockjobs corresponding to a pull-mode +backup don't report progress of the backup but rather usage of temporary +space required for the backup. + =item B<blockpull> I<domain> I<path> [I<bandwidth>] [I<--bytes>] [I<base>] [I<--wait> [I<--verbose>] [I<--timeout> B<seconds>] [I<--async>]] [I<--keep-relative>] -- 2.23.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
