Am 10.06.13 09:07, schrieb Kashyap Chamarthy: > On 06/09/2013 02:46 PM, Thomas Stein wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I just tried the following: >> >> virsh dumpxml --security-info gentoo-template > gentoo-template.xml >> virsh snapshot-create gentoo-template >> virsh undefine gentoo-template > > Wait - is that really the command you used after "snapshot-create" ? > Because: You cannot undefine a guest with a snapshot without first deleting its metadata > > To cleanly delete, maybe you should've done: > > $ virsh snapshot-delete --domain gentoo-template SNAPSHOTID --metadata Did that. But that deletes that snapshot too, no? > >> virsh blockcopy gentoo-template vda >> /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template.qcow2 --wait --verbose --finish >> virsh define gentoo-template.xml > > Can you also paste the output of: > > $ qemu-img info --backing-chain \ > /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template.qcow2 hn ~ # qemu-img info --backing-chain /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template.qcow2 image: /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template.qcow2 file format: qcow2 virtual size: 130G (139586437120 bytes) disk size: 30G cluster_size: 65536 Just to make myself clear. I want to backup the qcow image /with/ the internal snapshot. Is that even possible with blockcopy? thanks and best regards. >> virsh snapshot-delete gentoo-template --current >> >> But if i restore the /opt/virt-backup-blockcopy/gentoo-template/gentoo-template.qcow2 the >> snapshot is gone. >> >> Someone has an idea what i'm missing? I suppose i'm just missunderstandig the snapshot >> mechanism. > > Here's how I used blockcopy (few months ago, slightly outdated) -- > http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/virt/lc-2012/live-backup-with-blockcopy.txt > > >> >> thanks an best regards >> t. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> libvirt-users mailing list >> libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users >> > > _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
