Add help for --no-offline

And exit early if --no-offline and --no-snapshot are both used
tags/virt-backup-0.2.12-1
Daniel Berteaud 11 years ago
parent 139ae9d993
commit 9d26a80866
  1. 10
      virt-backup

@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ if (($opts{state}) && ($opts{shutdown})){
print "State and shutdown flags cannot be used together\n";
exit 1;
}
# Or if --no-offline and --no-snapshot are both passed
if (!$opts{offline} && !$opts{snapshot}){
print "--no-offline and --no-snapshot flags cannot be used together\n";
exit 1;
}
# Backup dir needs to be created first
if (! -d $opts{backupdir} ){
@ -606,7 +611,7 @@ sub run_cleanup{
# Print help
sub usage{
print "usage:\n$0 --action=[dump|cleanup|chunkmount|unlock] --vm=vm1[,vm2,vm3] [--debug] [--exclude=hda,hdb] [--compress] ".
"[--state] [--shutdown] [--shutdown-timeout] [--no-snapshot] [--snapsize=<size>] [--backupdir=/path/to/dir] [--connect=<URI>] ".
"[--state] [--shutdown] [--shutdown-timeout] [--no-offline] [--no-snapshot] [--snapsize=<size>] [--backupdir=/path/to/dir] [--connect=<URI>] ".
"[--keep-lock] [--blocksize=<block size>]\n" .
"\n\n" .
"\t--action: What action the script will run. Valid actions are\n\n" .
@ -624,6 +629,9 @@ sub usage{
"the exact state it was when the backup started. The reason this flag is optional is that some guests " .
"crashes after the restoration, especially when using the kvm-clock. Test this functionnality with" .
"your environnement before using this flag on production. This flag is mutual exclusive with --shutdown\n\n" .
"\t--no-offline: Abort the backup if live backup isn't possible (meaning snapshot failed). This is to prevent a VM " .
"begin paused for the duration of the backup, in some cases, its better to just abort the backup. Of course " .
"this flag is mutually exclusive with --no-snapshot\n\n" .
"\t--no-snapshot: Do not attempt to use LVM snapshots. If not present, the script will try to take a snapshot " .
"of each disk of type 'block'. If all disk can be snapshoted, the VM is resumed, or restored (depending " .
"on the --state flag) immediatly after the snapshots have been taken, resulting in almost no downtime. " .

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