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| author | Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com> | 2016-07-22 11:17:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> | 2016-09-05 19:06:48 +0200 |
| commit | 3b7b12365953c507d50b52fbd3f1b46574c6946f (patch) | |
| tree | 81a40dbf444bb120f54095b7ccf173bde1d18925 /qmp-commands.hx | |
| parent | 13b9414b5798539e2dbb87a570d96184fe21edf4 (diff) | |
| download | qemu-3b7b12365953c507d50b52fbd3f1b46574c6946f.zip | |
blockdev-backup: added support for data compression
The idea is simple - backup is "written-once" data. It is written block
by block and it is large enough. It would be nice to save storage
space and compress it.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qmp-commands.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qmp-commands.hx | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qmp-commands.hx b/qmp-commands.hx index d1593c91ff..ba2a916f69 100644 --- a/qmp-commands.hx +++ b/qmp-commands.hx @@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ EQMP { .name = "blockdev-backup", - .args_type = "job-id:s?,sync:s,device:B,target:B,speed:i?," + .args_type = "job-id:s?,sync:s,device:B,target:B,speed:i?,compress:b?," "on-source-error:s?,on-target-error:s?", .mhandler.cmd_new = qmp_marshal_blockdev_backup, }, @@ -1299,6 +1299,8 @@ Arguments: sectors allocated in the topmost image, or "none" to only replicate new I/O (MirrorSyncMode). - "speed": the maximum speed, in bytes per second (json-int, optional) +- "compress": true to compress data, if the target format supports it. + (json-bool, optional, default false) - "on-source-error": the action to take on an error on the source, default 'report'. 'stop' and 'enospc' can only be used if the block device supports io-status. |