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authorJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>2019-07-29 16:35:53 -0400
committerJohn Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>2019-08-16 16:28:02 -0400
commitcf0cd293c6311e0714739a95d022b262e1d9d798 (patch)
treeac87e5810f46d3a8a71b5cc4ce9450c59678d6ef /qapi/block-core.json
parentc8b56501780615f709d96419fd718ca562d41c46 (diff)
block/backup: add 'never' policy to bitmap sync mode
This adds a "never" policy for bitmap synchronization. Regardless of if the job succeeds or fails, we never update the bitmap. This can be used to perform differential backups, or simply to avoid the job modifying a bitmap. Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-7-jsnow@redhat.com Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index dd926f7828..06e34488a3 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -1146,10 +1146,13 @@
# @on-success: The bitmap is only synced when the operation is successful.
# This is the behavior always used for 'INCREMENTAL' backups.
#
+# @never: The bitmap is never synchronized with the operation, and is
+# treated solely as a read-only manifest of blocks to copy.
+#
# Since: 4.2
##
{ 'enum': 'BitmapSyncMode',
- 'data': ['on-success'] }
+ 'data': ['on-success', 'never'] }
##
# @MirrorCopyMode: