Re: [libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 08:53:08PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote:
I changed our backup script to use the method explained in
http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit and
this night, everything seems to have worked smoothly. The backup is even
faster now than before.
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Does this only work for qcow2 images, or will it also work for LVM images?
If your root backing file is raw (I tested this just now, again) or LVM,
it should work just fine. And the overlays will _have_ to be qcow2
files.
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/kashyap