Safety-first Bash utility for exporting and importing libvirt/KVM VMs. Preserves QCOW2 backing chains and snapshot metadata, verifies with SHA-256 before and after restore, refuses to produce incomplete backups or to overwrite conflicting files. Supports system and session connections, gzip/bzip2/xz/zstd/lz4, and OpenSSL or GPG encryption.
backup encryption virtual-machine virtualization kvm qemu shell-script libvirt backup-utility qcow2 backup-tool qemu-kvm selinux virsh vm-migration vm-backups vm-backing vm-backup vm-restore
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Sep 18, 2026 - Shell