[ovirt-devel] Re: Image Transfer mechanism queries/API support

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:32 AM Ranjit DSouza <Ranjit.DSouza(a)veritas.com&gt; wrote: > Hello oVirt Development team > > > > We had a conversation with Pavan Chavva for supporting RHV. He had > suggested to contact you with queries related to oVirt APIs we plan to use. > > We have following queries: > > > > 1. While downloading a snapshot disk, can we identify allocated > extents and download only those using oVirt API? We are able to download > the disk using the Image Transfer API mechanism. > > However, this method downloads the entire disk including the > non-allocated extents, which is a performance overhead. If this > functionality does not exist at this point will it be available in near > future? >

> > 2. Is there an alternate method to transfer a snapshot to and from > RHV storage? Are there other methods such as NFS share where we can > download snapshot image to and from RHV storage? > > > Have you tried using the sdk for download/upload disk snapshots: https://ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/backup-rest...

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