[PATCH 3/3] NEWS: Mention support for full backups via virDomainBackupBegin

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Mar 19 14:42:01 UTC 2021


On 3/18/21 11:45 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
> ---
>  NEWS.rst | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 9d819a3cf2..c2013ecac9 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ v7.2.0 (unreleased)
>      The memory dirty rate stats can be obtained through ``virsh domstats
>      --dirtyrate`` via the virConnectGetAllDomainStats API.
> 
> +  * qemu: Full disk backups via ``virDomainBackupBegin``
> +
> +    The qemu hypervisor dirver now allows taking full disk backups via the

driver

> +    ``virDomainBackupBegin`` API and the corresponding virsh wrapper.
> +
> +    In future releases the feature will be extended to also support incremental
> +    backups (where only the difference since the last backup is copied) when
> +    qemu adds the required functionality.
> +
>  * **Improvements**
> 
>  * **Bug fixes**
> 

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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