On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 19:03:21 +0200, Thomas Stein wrote: > Hello one and all. > > Just wanted to check out the new feature domainbackup but having trouble to > configure it. I thought I just have to put > > <domainbackup> > <disks> > <disk name='vda' type='file'> > <target file='/var/lib/libvirt/jitsi'/> > <driver type='raw'/> > </disk> > </disks> > </domainbackup> > > at the top level of my domain xml file but that does not seem to work. I > get: > > error: XML document failed to validate against schema: Unable to validate > doc against /usr/share/libvirt/schemas/domain.rng > Element domain has extra content: domainbackup That's not how it's used, if you want to create a backup you have to use the virDomainBackupBegin API e.g. via `virsh backup-begin VMNAME /path/to/backup.xml`. Your backup xml file seems to look correct.