Luis, you may want to take a look at rbd export/import and export-diff import-diff functionality. this could be used to copy data to another cluster or offsite. S3 has regions, which you could use for async replication. Not sure how the cephfs work for backups. Andrei ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Luis Periquito" <periquito at gmail.com> > To: ceph-users at lists.ceph.com > Sent: Tuesday, 23 September, 2014 11:28:39 AM > Subject: ceph backups > Hi fellow cephers, > I'm being asked questions around our backup of ceph, mainly due to > data deletion. > We are currently using ceph to store RBD, S3 and eventually cephFS; > and we would like to be able to devise a plan to backup the > information as to avoid issues with data being deleted from the > cluster. > I know RBD has the snapshots, but how can they be automated? Can we > rely on them to perform data recovery? > And for S3/CephFS? Are there any backup methods? Other than copying > all the information into another location? > thanks, > Luis > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users at lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/attachments/20140923/7f550ea9/attachment.htm>