We're currently trying to replace our proprietary backup software by using libvirt snapshot-create-as/blockcommit and borgbackup on raw image. virsh snapshot

We're currently trying to replace our proprietary backup software by using libvirt snapshot-create-as/blockcommit and borgbackup on raw image. virsh snapshot-create-as ... --disk-only borg create .... vmimage.raw virsh blockcommit ... --active --pivot borgbackup does compression and deduplication and has a simple command line and excellent documentation (and IRC channel :). https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://www.borgbackup.org/ guestfish/libguestfs is then used if you need specific files within an image instead of a complete restore. https://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html https://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html Example dump the name of all files on all filesystems: guestfish --ro -i -a vmimage.raw find / Can be used to check integrity post backup too, and may be we'll add some file indexing tools.