Hi all, I implemented a handy tool called rados_sync. It can be used to back up all the items in a rados pool to a directory on disk. It correctly handles object names which contain slashes or which are too long to fit in a normal file. Extended attributes in rados are stored as extended attributes on the local files. Only things which have changed are transferred-- objects which have the same size and modification time will not be re-downloaded or re-uploaded. If only extended attributes have changed, only they will be resent. P.S. Have a good weekend, all. Colin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html