Merging two active ceph clusters: suggestions needed

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On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 02:33:09PM +0900, Christian Balzer wrote:
> > For a variety of reasons, none good anymore, we have two separate Ceph
> > clusters.
> > 
> > I would like to merge them onto the newer hardware, with as little
> > downtime and data loss as possible; then discard the old hardware.
> > 
> > Cluster A (2 hosts):
> > - 3TB of S3 content, >100k files, file mtimes important
> > - <500GB of RBD volumes, exported via iscsi
> > 
> > Cluster B (4 hosts):
> > - <50GiB of S3 content
> > - 7TB of RBD volumes, exported via iscsi
> > 
> > Short of finding somewhere to dump all of the data from one side, and
> > re-importing it after merging with that cluster as empty; are there any
> > other alternatives available to me?
> > 
> 
> Having recently seen a similar question and the answer by the Ceph
> developers, no. 
> As in there is no way (and no plans) for merging clusters.
> 
> There are export functions for RBD volumes, not sure about S3 and the
> mtimes as I don't use that functionality. 
Can somebody else make comments about migrating S3 buckets with
preserved mtime data (and all of the ACLs & CORS) then?

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