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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/8] block: Live backup prototype


From: Dietmar Maurer
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/8] block: Live backup prototype
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:34:54 +0000

> >   Is there already a plan to support the differential or incremental 
> > backups in
> this Live backup feature?
> 
> No, it has been mentioned but no design or patches have been proposed.
> 
> It seems like a persistent dirty bitmap would need to be implemented.
> Today QEMU has code for dirty bitmaps but they are in-memory and not
> persistent.

Another possibility is to use some kind of content addressable storage. That way
we can have full backups with space consumption of incremental backups.





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