Re: Authoritative info on backup-begin versus snapshots/other state capture

2025-01-16 Thread camccuk--- via Users
This is really helpful, thanks. > The disk quiescing is not part of the backup operation and needs to be > done manually via 'virsh domfsfreeze' if required. The original I assume quiescing *would* be necessary for workloads like databases and if we can live with a crash-consistent backup then w

Re: Authoritative info on backup-begin versus snapshots/other state capture

2025-01-16 Thread Peter Krempa
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 16:48:59 -, camccuk--- via Users wrote: > Hello all > > Apologies for the basic nature of the question, but having recently started > working with libvirt - and virtualisation in general - I find there is a lot > of out-of-date and sometimes contradictory material out

Authoritative info on backup-begin versus snapshots/other state capture

2025-01-16 Thread camccuk--- via Users
Hello all Apologies for the basic nature of the question, but having recently started working with libvirt - and virtualisation in general - I find there is a lot of out-of-date and sometimes contradictory material out there across blogs, articles, stackoverflow, the usual sources... I thought