Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Incremental live backup with in memory dirty bitmap

2013-12-02 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:59:12PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > This is an idea about allowing online incremental backup of block > device, with drive-backup and (proposed here) in-memory block dirty > bitmap: > > 1. We enable a dirty bitmap on a block device, at the start point of > write tracking:

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Incremental live backup with in memory dirty bitmap

2013-11-25 Thread Fam Zheng
Hi all, This is an idea about allowing online incremental backup of block device, with drive-backup and (proposed here) in-memory block dirty bitmap: 1. We enable a dirty bitmap on a block device, at the start point of write tracking: (QMP) dirty-bitmap-add device=foo name=bitmap0 granula