[Users] oVirt support for backup/restore

[Gianluca Cecchi]

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