[pve-devel] snapshot improvements

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 27.09.2012 06:43, schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
>> I also tried todo backups with snapshots but this doesn't seem to work:
>>
>> INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 100 --remove 0 --mode snapshot --
>> compress lzo --storage backuplocal --node serv121
>> INFO: Starting Backup of VM 100 (qemu)
>> INFO: status = running
>> ERROR: Backup of VM 100 failed - no such volume 'Stor1:vm-100-disk-1'
>> INFO: Backup job finished with errors
>> TASK ERROR: job errors
>
> Yes, I need to implement that first.
>
> The idea is that we do not backup any snapshot data. The vzdump would only include
> the data of from the running instance. I guess that is OK?

But isn't the correct way to make a snapshot and then compress the 
snapshot? How can vzdump verify that the data integrity is fine?

Greets,
Stefan