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authorPavel Butsykin <pbutsykin@virtuozzo.com>2016-07-22 11:17:53 +0300
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2016-09-05 19:06:48 +0200
commit3b7b12365953c507d50b52fbd3f1b46574c6946f (patch)
tree81a40dbf444bb120f54095b7ccf173bde1d18925 /blockdev.c
parent13b9414b5798539e2dbb87a570d96184fe21edf4 (diff)
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 'blockdev.c')
-rw-r--r--blockdev.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
index f5857d0187..97062e33c3 100644
--- a/blockdev.c
+++ b/blockdev.c
@@ -3254,6 +3254,9 @@ void do_blockdev_backup(BlockdevBackup *backup, BlockJobTxn *txn, Error **errp)
if (!backup->has_job_id) {
backup->job_id = NULL;
}
+ if (!backup->has_compress) {
+ backup->compress = false;
+ }
bs = qmp_get_root_bs(backup->device, errp);
if (!bs) {
@@ -3280,8 +3283,8 @@ void do_blockdev_backup(BlockdevBackup *backup, BlockJobTxn *txn, Error **errp)
}
}
backup_start(backup->job_id, bs, target_bs, backup->speed, backup->sync,
- NULL, false, backup->on_source_error, backup->on_target_error,
- block_job_cb, bs, txn, &local_err);
+ NULL, backup->compress, backup->on_source_error,
+ backup->on_target_error, block_job_cb, bs, txn, &local_err);
if (local_err != NULL) {
error_propagate(errp, local_err);
}