Hello everybody, I'm looking at Ceph as an alternative for my current storage solution, but I'm wondering if it is the right choice for me. I'm hoping you guys can help me decide. The current setup is a FreeBSD 10.1 machine running entirely on ZFS. The function of the machine is offsite backup for important data. For some (fairly rapidly changing) data this server is the only backup of it. But because the data is changing fairly quickly (every day at least) I'm looking to get this server more HA then it is now. It is just one FreeBSD machine, so this is an enormous SPOF off course. The most used functionality of ZFS that I use is the snapshot technology. I've got multiple users on this server and each user has it's own filesystem within the pool. And I just snapshot each filesystem regularly and that way I enable the users to go back in time. I've looked at the snapshot functionality of Ceph, but it's not clear to me what I can snapshot with it exactly. Furthermore: what is the best way to hook Ceph to the application I use to transfer the data from the users to the backup server? Today I'm using OwnCloud, which is (in essence) a WebDAV server. Now I'm thinking about replacing OwnCloud with something custom build. That way I can let PHP talk directly with librados, which makes it easy to store the data. Or I can keep on using OwnCloud and just hook up Ceph via CephFS. This has the added advantage that I don't have to get my head around the concept of object storage :p ;). Kind regards, Cybertinus _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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