On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 13:16 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 12/13/22 00:27, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 12/11/22 05:22, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Has dump/restore been superseded with something else? > > > > > > It ain't work right! > > > > > > dump restores a qcows drive as a blank drive > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2152393 > > > > You might want to look into nbdkit and nbdkit-libvirt-plugin. > > > > That should work for dump, but you'll have to convert the restored > > data > > back into qcow again. > > I successfully test restored four of my main VM > disk files after converting them to "raw". > > It may just be my perception, but I think raw > just might be faster than qcows2
For many workloads it probably is, as qcow adds a layer of indirection to filesystem access. However qcow also allows compression, sparse files, encryption and copy-on-write snapshots (COW, hence the name) independently of whether the underlying guest system supports these things. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
