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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/22/2012 11:22 PM, Kobagana Kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am working on *Delta Changes *of an instance. Can you please tell me
> The procedure to take *Incremental Backups (Delta Changes) *of VMs,
> instead of taking the snapshot of entire instance.

The only non-commerical solution I know of for QEMU/KVM is livebackup:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Livebackup

But AFAIK, no work has been done on integrating this into Nova's libvirt
driver.

Patches always welcome :)

Best,
-jay