vmsync
I’ve been asked a few times if it would be possible to use virtnbdbackup as some kind of “replication” utility, to keep cold standby virtual machines on other libvirt hosts.
Michael Ablassmeier
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Latest posts
virtnbdbackup 2.46 - bitlocker recovery keys
I’ve released virtnbdbackup 2.46 which now attempts to extract the bitlocker recovery keys during backup. The windows domains need a working qemu agent installed during backup for this to work.
pbsindex - file backup index
If you take backups using the proxmox-backup-client and you wondered what backup may include a specific file, the only way to find out is to mount the backup and search for the files.
libvirt 11.10 VIR_DOMAIN_BACKUP_BEGIN_PRESERVE_SHUTDOWN_DOMAIN
As with libvirt 11.10 a new flag for backup operation has been inroduced: VIR_DOMAIN_BACKUP_BEGIN_PRESERVE_SHUTDOWN_DOMAIN.
building SLES 16 vagrant/libvirt images using guestfs tools
SLES 16 has been released. In the past, SUSE offered ready built vagrant images. Unfortunately that’s not the case anymore, as with more recent SLES15 releases the official images were gone.
qmpbackup and proxmox 9
The latest Proxmox release introduces a new Qemu machine version that seems to behave differently for how it addresses the virtual disk configuration.
Vagrant images for trixie
It’s no news that the vagrant license has changed while ago, which resulted in less motivation to maintain it in Debian (understandably).
PVE 9.0 - Snapshots for LVM
The new Proxmox release advertises a new feature for easier snapshot handling of virtual machines whose disks are stored on LVM volumes, I wondered.. whats the deal..?
libvirt - incremental backups for raw devices
Skimming through the latest libvirt releases, to my surprise, i found that latest versions (>= v10.10.0) have added support for the QCOW data-file setting.
qmpbackup 0.46 - add image fleecing
I’ve released qmpbackup 0.46 which now utilizes the image fleecing technique for backup.