The application relates to the technical field of virtual machines, and particularly discloses a
continuous data protection method and device,
electronic equipment and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises the following steps: temporarily creating a copy image file and taking the copy image file as a disk medium of a
virtual machine; starting the
virtual machine, performing data operation and recording based on
continuous data protection, and simultaneously performing data initialization operation; after the data initialization operation is completed, switching the
disk image file to the disk medium of the
virtual machine; performing backfill
processing on the
disk image file; performing data operation and recording based on
continuous data protection; the method temporarily creates a copy image file before starting the virtual
machine, takes the copy image file as the disk medium used by the virtual
machine in the initial stage, and simultaneously performs data initialization operation, so that the virtual
machine does not need to pause running to
record a
data source in the initial stage, the starting rate of the virtual machine can be greatly improved, and the problem of initialization time consumption existing in
continuous data protection is effectively solved.