[libvirt-users] KVM incremental backup using CBT

Thomas Stein himbeere at meine-oma.de
Wed Oct 29 21:05:16 UTC 2014


On Wednesday 29 October 2014 13:29:25 Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 01:07 PM, Thomas Stein wrote:
> > About the --quiesce option. Do i need to do something inside the vm? The
> > most commonly would probably be a sql server running inside the vm. Do i
> > need to tell the sql server something about the --quiesce option i use? I
> > read this article here which suggests such a procedure. Okay, it's
> > vmware, but... Is that right?
> 
> For --quiesce to work, you have to have qemu-guest-agent installed and
> running in your guest, and also inform libvirt via the domain XML to
> establish a channel to the guest agent.  Furthermore, if you want your
> sql database to be at a stable point, you can install freeze hooks in
> your guest that get invoked prior to freezing the file system and just
> after thawing it (that is, qemu-guest-agent already has documented hooks
> that let you do any additional prep work beyond just freezing the file
> system).
> 
> A quick google search found this:
> http://callecalle.uach.cl/ovirt-engine/docs/manual/en_US/html/Technical_Guid
> e/QEMU_Guest_Agent_Overview.html
> 
> Sadly, it didn't spell out the name of where you install hook scripts
> into the guest.  But this commit is pretty telling:
> https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/scripts/qemu-guest-agent/fsfreeze-h
> ook

Thank you very much Eric.

The hole thing now raises a few more questions. But maybe i will ask them 
later. :-)

cheers
t.
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