From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:14:43 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: NEWS: Mention support for full backups via virDomainBackupBegin
X-Git-Tag: v7.2.0-rc1~64
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=218d4cf4331eaeaa522e3c4acc6bb7be870ffe3a;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

NEWS: Mention support for full backups via virDomainBackupBegin

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 9d819a3cf2..2142cbd21e 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ v7.2.0 (unreleased)
     The memory dirty rate stats can be obtained through ``virsh domstats
     --dirtyrate`` via the virConnectGetAllDomainStats API.
 
+  * qemu: Full disk backups via ``virDomainBackupBegin``
+
+    The qemu hypervisor driver now allows taking full disk backups via the
+    ``virDomainBackupBegin`` API and the corresponding virsh wrapper.
+
+    In future releases the feature will be extended to also support incremental
+    backups (where only the difference since the last backup is copied) when
+    qemu adds the required functionality.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**