Hi Thomas, I'm using this script which leverages external snapshots and blockpull: https://github.com/dguerri/LibVirtKvm-scripts It's very simple and on ubuntu requires some tweaks on apparmour configuration. Hth Cheers, Davide -- Davide Guerri http://about.me/davide_guerri > On 20 Sep 2013, at 15:31, Thomas Stein <himbeere@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello. > > Is someone performing incremental backups via libvirt for qemu/kvm machines? I'm still having a hard time to > find a nice procedure. I mean is it possible to make a full backup of an image on monday a do the next days of the week > incremental backups? > > Another way could be mount the image and rsync its contents. Does that makes sense? > > Also i read in qemu changelog: > > --- > Support for a new block device background job. Started by drive-backup, it will backup a disk's content to a new file. Unlike drive-mirror, the new file will include the source disk's content at the time the backup job was started. Atomic backup of multiple disks is supported using the "transaction" QMP command. > --- > > Is this supported by libvirt? > > thanks and best regards > thomas > > _______________________________________________ > 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
