On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 10:11:42PM +0530, Ishani Chugh wrote:
> This patch series is intended to introduce QEMU Backup tool.
> qemu-backup will be a command-line tool for performing full and
> incremental disk backups on running VMs. It is intended as a
> reference implementation for management stack and backup developers
> to see QEMU's backup features in action.
> This patch series contains three patches,
> 1) QEMU Backup command line tool.
> 2) Test for full backup.
> 3) Manpage for the tool.
> v4:
> * Reorganize patch structure.
> * Modify commit message for backup tool commit.
> * Organize examples by subcommands.
> * Add checks for required arguments.
> * Adds required arguments group to mandatory arguments.
> * Add checks for validating socket path.
>
> Ishani Chugh (3):
> Add manpage for QEMU Backup Tool
> backup: Adds Backup Tool
> Test for full Backup
>
> Makefile | 14 +-
> contrib/backup/qemu-backup.py | 373 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> contrib/backup/qemu-backup.texi | 142 +++++++++++++++
> tests/qemu-iotests/191 | 86 +++++++++
> tests/qemu-iotests/191.out | 35 ++++
> tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 +
> 6 files changed, 647 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> create mode 100755 contrib/backup/qemu-backup.py
> create mode 100644 contrib/backup/qemu-backup.texi
> create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/191
> create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/191.out
>
> --
> 2.7.4
Aside from Fam's comment:
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>