[libvirt-users] Problem executing VM backups

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 08:53:08PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote:
> I changed our backup script to use the method explained in
> http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Live-disk-backup-with-active-blockcommit and
> this night, everything seems to have worked smoothly. The backup is even
> faster now than before.
> >
> 
> Does this only work for qcow2 images, or will it also work for LVM images?

If your root backing file is raw (I tested this just now, again) or LVM,
it should work just fine.  And the overlays will _have_ to be qcow2
files.

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/kashyap