On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 09:30:46PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 19/05/2013 18:47, Richard W.M. Jones ha scritto: > >> > > >> > 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? > > Almost, and even for an atomic copy of multiple disks. All that is left > is to create the copy with the disk as a backing file, and switch the > backing file at the end of the copy. It is a very simple change on top > of these patches.
Cool news. I look forward to this :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
