Re: [Qemu-devel] "File too large" error from "qemu-img snapshot" (was Re: AW: Bug Repoting Directions Request)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 19/11/2014 12:48, Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much. To execute the backup, I run a script. For the machine 
> in question, it looks as follows:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> dt=`date +%y%m%d`
> qemu-img snapshot -c gatewayb72 /kvm02/gatewayb72.img
> qemu-img convert  -f qcow2 -O qcow2 /kvm02/gatewayb72.img 
> /backup/gatewayb72$dt.img
> qemu-img snapshot -d gatewayb72 /kvm02/gatewayb72.img
> /bin/find /backup/* -mtime +100 -exec rm {} \;

Is it done while the VM is running?

Paolo