Hi Everyone, I am running a KVM test cluster on Fedora 19 using gluster + libgfapi as a network backend for my QCOW2 images. This configuration precludes me from using virsh's backup features provided in Fedora and thus I am doing "live snapshots" by executing: # perform internal snapshot on qcow2 using FUSE mount to gluster: qemu-img snapshot -c snapname /gluster/test.qcow2 # convert the snapshot to an external file for archiving: qemu-img convert -s snapname /gluster/test.qcow2 /gluster-backup/test.qcow2.snapshot My Question: 1. Is there any blocking or locking issues I should be concerned about while doing snapshot's or converts? 2. I know this leaves my snapshot in an inconsistent state...but is this an incorrect use of the qemu/qcow2 tools? 3. Is there a better way to do this via gluster / gfapi that I'm missing? Thanks!
