>Van: libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com
>[mailto:libvirt-users-boun...@redhat.com] Namens Phill Edwards
>Verzonden: vrijdag 24 juni 2016 5:39
>Aan: Kashyap Chamarthy
>CC: libvirt-users@redhat.com; Markus Ellinger
>Onderwerp: Re: [libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups
> > 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.
All my VM images are raw format on LVM volumes (hope I'm using
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
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.
>
Does this only work for qcow2 images, or will it also work for LVM
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:17:28PM +0200, Markus Ellinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thank you very much for your suggestions. 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 wo
Hello,
thank you very much for your suggestions. 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.
Best regards
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:59:24AM +0200, Markus Ellinger wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> we are suddenly having a problem with executing our backup jobs. For a long
> time, we have used a shell script which contains the following code to
> backup all our virtual machines:
>
> for domain in Tes
