Re: [Users] oVirt support for backup/restore

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > in general, you are correct - you don't care about live snapshot with > memory, since you probably mostly care about backing up the disks. > you may care, depending on the type of guest, on having a qemu-guest-agent > installed, which would help with syncing the writes to the disks before the > live snapshot is taken. > > something to test though is if a daily snapshot does not degrade the > performance of the running VM, due to more COW layers (until the backup api > and live merge are in place). hello, coming back to this topic. when you say " you may care, depending on the type of guest, on having a qemu-guest-agent installed, which would help with syncing the writes to the disks " do you refer to something in particular already implemented as a command or something similar? I have a CentOS 6 guest with rhev-guest-agent taken by dreyu repoan dwould like to test what available in case. Thanks, Gianluca