Users may want to use this to create a full backup or even incremental if the checkpoints are pre existing. We still will not allow to create a checkpoint on a read-only disk as that makes no sense. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1840053 Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/conf/backup_conf.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/conf/backup_conf.c b/src/conf/backup_conf.c index 92106d8aaa..e9eea5af75 100644 --- a/src/conf/backup_conf.c +++ b/src/conf/backup_conf.c @@ -411,13 +411,6 @@ virDomainBackupDefAssignStore(virDomainBackupDiskDefPtr disk, _("disk '%s' has no media"), disk->name); return -1; } - } else if (src->readonly) { - if (disk->store) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, - _("backup of readonly disk '%s' makes no sense"), - disk->name); - return -1; - } } else if (!disk->store) { if (virStorageSourceGetActualType(src) == VIR_STORAGE_TYPE_FILE) { if (!(disk->store = virStorageSourceNew())) -- 2.26.2