On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 01:22:13PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 18:16:12 +0200, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: [...] > > diff --git a/docs/kbase/live_full_disk_backup.rst b/docs/kbase/live_full_disk_backup.rst > > new file mode 100644 > > index 0000000000..f4ef7f2cc7 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/docs/kbase/live_full_disk_backup.rst > > @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ > > +Efficient live full disk backup > > +=============================== > > It feels nowadays a bit weird to add a document which outlines > everything you can achieve with the virDomainBackupBegin API without any > of the extra steps. Right, I wrote them when virDomainBackupBegin() and friends were not there yet :-). I see that the newer API is mentioned in the "internals" doc here, which outlines how libvirt implements incremental backups and some "pseudo algorithms" on external snapshots: https://libvirt.org/kbase/incrementalbackupinternals.html > I'd suggest you note that this predates the backup APIs or link to them > somehow. Yep, I'll mention and link to it. But also I think a separate, use-case drive doc for virDomainBackupBegin() and friends can also be very handy. I'll make that a TODO after I clean-up these two first. [...] -- /kashyap