From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr3pV-0006mn-5w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:53:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr3pO-0003Ow-Nl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:53:49 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49191) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xr3pO-0003Oo-HK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:53:42 -0500 Message-ID: <546C84C1.5000901@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:53:37 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <2A6E6B95B6E5C146ACE8440760E58185BDC31A5E@EXCHANGESERVER.schefczyk.local> <546C782E.9070803@redhat.com> <2A6E6B95B6E5C146ACE8440760E58185BDC31C30@EXCHANGESERVER.schefczyk.local> <546C8200.4070800@redhat.com> <2A6E6B95B6E5C146ACE8440760E58185BDC31C70@EXCHANGESERVER.schefczyk.local> In-Reply-To: <2A6E6B95B6E5C146ACE8440760E58185BDC31C70@EXCHANGESERVER.schefczyk.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] "File too large" error from "qemu-img snapshot" (was Re: AW: Bug Repoting Directions Request) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk" , qemu-devel On 19/11/2014 12:48, Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk wrote: > > Thank you very much. To execute the backup, I run a script. For the machine in question, it looks as follows: > > #!/bin/bash > dt=`date +%y%m%d` > qemu-img snapshot -c gatewayb72 /kvm02/gatewayb72.img > qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O qcow2 /kvm02/gatewayb72.img /backup/gatewayb72$dt.img > qemu-img snapshot -d gatewayb72 /kvm02/gatewayb72.img > /bin/find /backup/* -mtime +100 -exec rm {} \; Is it done while the VM is running? Paolo