diff --git a/src/remote/remote_driver.c b/src/remote/remote_driver.c
index 915e8e5b3d..8221683d56 100644
--- a/src/remote/remote_driver.c
+++ b/src/remote/remote_driver.c
@@ -8112,6 +8112,7 @@ static virDriver remote_driver = {
     .domainBlockJobSetSpeed = remoteDomainBlockJobSetSpeed, /* 0.9.4 */
     .domainBlockPull = remoteDomainBlockPull, /* 0.9.4 */
     .domainBlockRebase = remoteDomainBlockRebase, /* 0.9.10 */
+    .domainBlockCopy = remoteDomainBlockCopy, /* 1.2.9 */
     .domainBlockCommit = remoteDomainBlockCommit, /* 0.10.2 */
     .connectSetKeepAlive = remoteConnectSetKeepAlive, /* 0.9.8 */
     .connectIsAlive = remoteConnectIsAlive, /* 0.9.8 */
diff --git a/src/remote/remote_protocol.x b/src/remote/remote_protocol.x
index 8fc552f312..a4ca0c3421 100644
--- a/src/remote/remote_protocol.x
+++ b/src/remote/remote_protocol.x
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ const REMOTE_DOMAIN_BLOCK_IO_TUNE_PARAMETERS_MAX = 16;
 /* Upper limit on list of numa parameters. */
 const REMOTE_DOMAIN_NUMA_PARAMETERS_MAX = 16;
 
+/* Upper limit on block copy tunable parameters. */
+const REMOTE_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_PARAMETERS_MAX = 16;
+
 /* Upper limit on list of node cpu stats. */
 const REMOTE_NODE_CPU_STATS_MAX = 16;
 
@@ -1284,6 +1287,13 @@ struct remote_domain_block_rebase_args {
     unsigned hyper bandwidth;
     unsigned int flags;
 };
+struct remote_domain_block_copy_args {
+    remote_nonnull_domain dom;
+    remote_nonnull_string path;
+    remote_nonnull_string destxml;
+    remote_typed_param params<REMOTE_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_PARAMETERS_MAX>;
+    unsigned int flags;
+};
 struct remote_domain_block_commit_args {
     remote_nonnull_domain dom;
     remote_nonnull_string disk;
@@ -5456,5 +5466,11 @@ enum remote_procedure {
      * @acl: connect:search_domains
      * @aclfilter: domain:read
      */
-    REMOTE_PROC_CONNECT_GET_ALL_DOMAIN_STATS = 344
+    REMOTE_PROC_CONNECT_GET_ALL_DOMAIN_STATS = 344,
+
+    /**
+     * @generate: both
+     * @acl: domain:block_write
+     */
+    REMOTE_PROC_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY = 345
 };
diff --git a/src/remote_protocol-structs b/src/remote_protocol-structs
index 899f1cc64e..e9604159fb 100644
--- a/src/remote_protocol-structs
+++ b/src/remote_protocol-structs
@@ -916,6 +916,16 @@ struct remote_domain_block_rebase_args {
         uint64_t                   bandwidth;
         u_int                      flags;
 };
+struct remote_domain_block_copy_args {
+        remote_nonnull_domain      dom;
+        remote_nonnull_string      path;
+        remote_nonnull_string      destxml;
+        struct {
+                u_int              params_len;
+                remote_typed_param * params_val;
+        } params;
+        u_int                      flags;
+};
 struct remote_domain_block_commit_args {
         remote_nonnull_domain      dom;
         remote_nonnull_string      disk;
@@ -2890,4 +2900,5 @@ enum remote_procedure {
         REMOTE_PROC_CONNECT_GET_DOMAIN_CAPABILITIES = 342,
         REMOTE_PROC_DOMAIN_OPEN_GRAPHICS_FD = 343,
         REMOTE_PROC_CONNECT_GET_ALL_DOMAIN_STATS = 344,
+        REMOTE_PROC_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY = 345,
 };