[PATCH 6/6] NEWS: Mention enablement of incremental backups

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Fri Jul 23 09:43:58 UTC 2021


Now that 'blockdev-reopen' will be stable in the upcoming qemu versions
we can finally enable incremental backups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index d95750e776..a7a7022f8d 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ v7.6.0 (unreleased)

 * **New features**

+  * qemu: Incremental backup support via ``virDomainBackupBegin``
+
+    libvirt-7.6 along with the unreleased qemu-6.1 will fully support the change
+    block tracking features (block-dirty-bitmaps) to be able to do incremental
+    backups and management of the checkpoint states via the appropriate APIs.
+
 * **Improvements**

 * **Bug fixes**
-- 
2.31.1




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