On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Dyweni - Ceph-Users <6EXbab4FYk8H@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to plan for a disaster, in which all data and all hardware > (excluding the full set of Ceph OSD data drives) is lost. What data do I > need to backup in order to put those drives into new machines and startup my > cluster? > > Would a flat file backup of /var/lib/ceph/mon (while the monitor daemon is > running) be sufficient? Generally, no, as it will be out of date. You can recover from the OSD stores and a bit of manual poking: http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-mon/#recovery-using-osds -Greg _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com