[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
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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