Re: General use of zstd instead of zlib compression

2025-03-15 Thread Peter Krempa
On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 13:33:04 -, Michael Niehren wrote: > An implementation only in the backup job would be great, that would fit my > needs. > > Maybe some more flags in the backupxml file would be useful. I used for > compressing > on the zstd call > "--sparse --rsyncable -B128 " > as

Re: General use of zstd instead of zlib compression

2025-03-15 Thread Michael Niehren
one more ... what would happen, if i create the qcow2 image with zstd compression enabled and use the '--reuse-external' flag ? Would qemu write compressed data in it or not ?

best backup strategy for full backup's

2025-03-15 Thread Michael Niehren
Hi together, actually i only do full-backup's of my virtual machines. I use the for the backup the "old" strategy: - virsh snapshot-create-as $vmname overlay --disk-only --atomic --no-metadata --quiesce - copy the qcow2 image file - virsh blockcommit $vmname $device --active --wait --pivot - the