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@drive-backup
Start a point-in-time copy of a block device to a new destination. The
status of ongoing drive-backup operations can be checked with
query-block-jobs where the BlockJobInfo.type field has the value 'backup'.
The operation can be stopped before it has completed using the
block-job-cancel command.
@device: the name of the device which should be copied.
@target: the target of the new image. If the file exists, or if it
is a device, the existing file/device will be used as the new
destination. If it does not exist, a new file will be created.
@format: #optional the format of the new destination, default is to
probe if @mode is 'existing', else the format of the source
@mode: #optional whether and how QEMU should create a new image, default is
'absolute-paths'.
@speed: #optional the maximum speed, in bytes per second
@on-source-error: #optional 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 (see BlockInfo).
@on-target-error: #optional the action to take on an error on the target,
default 'report' (no limitations, since this applies to
a different block device than @device).
Note that @on-source-error and @on-target-error only affect background I/O.
If an error occurs during a guest write request, the device's rerror/werror
actions will be used.
Returns: nothing on success
If @device is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound
Since 1.6
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Read the documentation in qemu-doc.html or on http://wiki.qemu.org - QEMU team