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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/7] qmp: add command 'blockdev-backup'


From: Kevin Wolf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 6/7] qmp: add command 'blockdev-backup'
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:17:53 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Am 22.11.2013 um 06:24 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben:
> Similar to drive-backup, but this command uses a device id as target
> instead of creating/opening an image file.
> 
> Also add blocker on target bs, since the target is also a named device
> now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>

> diff --git a/qmp-commands.hx b/qmp-commands.hx
> index fba15cd..4116a8d 100644
> --- a/qmp-commands.hx
> +++ b/qmp-commands.hx
> @@ -963,6 +963,52 @@ Example:
>                                                 "sync": "full",
>                                                 "target": "backup.img" } }
>  <- { "return": {} }
> +
> +EQMP
> +
> +    {
> +        .name       = "blockdev-backup",
> +        .args_type  = "sync:s,device:B,target:B,speed:i?,"
> +                      "on-source-error:s?,on-target-error:s?",
> +        .mhandler.cmd_new = qmp_marshal_input_blockdev_backup,
> +    },
> +
> +SQMP
> +blockdev-backup
> +------------
> +
> +The device version of drive-backup: this command takes a existing named 
> device
> +as backup target.
> +
> +Arguments:
> +
> +- "device": the name of the device which should be copied.
> +            (json-string)
> +- "target": the target of the new image. If the file exists, or if it is a
> +            device, the existing file/device will be used as the new
> +            destination.  If it does not exist, a new file will be created.
> +            (json-string)
> +- "sync": what parts of the disk image should be copied to the destination;
> +  possibilities include "full" for all the disk, "top" for only the sectors
> +  allocated in the topmost image, or "none" to only replicate new I/O
> +  (MirrorSyncMode).

What happened to the indentation?

> +- "mode": whether and how QEMU should create a new image
> +          (NewImageMode, optional, default 'absolute-paths')

"mode" doesn't exist for blockdev-backup.

> +- "speed": the maximum speed, in bytes per second (json-int, optional)
> +- "on-source-error": the action to take on an error on the source, default
> +                     'report'.  'stop' and 'enospc' can only be used
> +                     if the block device supports io-status.
> +                     (BlockdevOnError, optional)
> +- "on-target-error": the action to take on an error on the target, default
> +                     'report' (no limitations, since this applies to
> +                     a different block device than device).
> +                     (BlockdevOnError, optional)
> +
> +Example:
> +-> { "execute": "blockdev-backup", "arguments": { "device": "src-id",
> +                                                  "target": "tgt-id" } }
> +<- { "return": {} }
> +
>  EQMP

Kevin



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