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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] block: drive-backup live backup command


From: Richard W.M. Jones
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/8] block: drive-backup live backup command
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 17:47:55 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10)

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:36:11AM +0200, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
[...]
> How can drive-backup be used?
> -----------------------------
> The simplest use-case is to copy a point-in-time snapshot to a local file.
> 
> More advanced users may wish to make the target an NBD URL.  The NBD server
> listening on the other side can process the backup writes any way it wishes.  
> I
> previously posted an RFC series with a backup server that streamed Dietmar's
> VMA backup archive format.

I'm guessing the answer is no, but thought I would ask:  Is there
any way to use this to do point-in-time inspection of guests?
AFAICT the only way to do it would be to make a complete copy of a
guest disk in another file.

Rich.

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