The 13/03/13, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/13/2013 09:25 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > I use a script started each night to (managed)save the guests and upload > > them to a FTP server. Basically, I do > > > > virsh managedsave guest > > <upload managedsave file> > > <upload guest disks> > > virsh start guest > > You might want to look into external snapshots as a more efficient way > of taking guest snapshots. With virsh managedsave/start, you are > guaranteed guest downtime of several seconds at a minimum, and you have > to do the disk management yourself; but with external snapshots, you can > take a consistent picture of guest state at a point in time with > sub-second downtime (the same way live migration between hosts has > sub-second downtime). I'm coming back to say that we now have a working solution in production based on external snapshots. It's written in python to execute to process detailed in this thread. The downtime is a few seconds. Thanks again. -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
