Normally any production Ceph cluster will have at least 3 MONs, does it reall need a backup of MON? samuel huxiaoyu@xxxxxxxxxxxx From: Marc Date: 2021-02-12 14:36 To: Michal Strnad; ceph-users@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: Backups of monitor So why not create an extra start it only when you want to make a backup, wait until it is up to date, stop it and then stop it to back it up? > -----Original Message----- > From: Michal Strnad <michal.strnad@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: 11 February 2021 21:15 > To: ceph-users@xxxxxxx > Subject: Backups of monitor > > Hi all, > > We are looking for a proper solution for backups of monitor (all maps > that they hold). On the internet we found advice that we have to stop > one of monitor, back it up (dump) and start daemon again. But this is > not right approach due to risk of loosing quorum and need of > synchronization after monitor is back online. > > Our goal is to have at least some (recent) metadata of objects in > cluster for the last resort when all monitors are in very bad > shape/state and we could start any of them. Maybe there is another > approach but we are not aware of it. > > We are running the latest nautilus and three monitors on every cluster. > > Ad. We don't want to use more monitors than thee. > > > Thank you > Cheers > Michal > -- > Michal Strnad > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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