[libvirt] RFC backup API

[Maxim Nestratov]

28.04.2016 17:50, Daniel P. Berrange пишет:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 05:02:20PM +0300, Maxim Nestratov wrote:
>> 27.04.2016 15:31, Daniel P. Berrange пишет:
>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:47:29PM +0300, Maxim Nestratov wrote:
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> int virBackupRestore(const char * xmlDesc,
>>>>                       unsigned int flags)
>>> For the "managed backups" case it feels like this should be accepting
>>> a virDomainBackupPtr rather than an xmlDesc string.
>> Not sure because I would like to have an ability to restore not every disk a
>> backup has but sometimes selected only.
> How about doing
>
>    virDomainBackupRestore(virDomainBackupPtr backip,
>                           const char *xmlDesc,
> 			 unsigned int flags);
>
> Alow xmlDesc to be NULL by default, so it uses the built-in recorded
> XML unless you choose to override it with custom XML. This is similar
> to how we let people override XML during migration.

Cool. This fits perfectly.

>
> Regards,
> Daniel