Steve, I think the best bet would be geo replication with lvm snaps: 1) Geo replicate to another gluster install on separate hardware 2) Snap the volume using lvm that you have your gluster bricks on If you snap once a day and retain for 7 days, that should achieve your backup need. Cheers, Dave On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Steve Dainard <sdainard at miovision.com>wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm toying with the idea of using Gluster as a user facing network share, > and geo-replicating the data for backup purposes. > > At a bare minimum I'd like geo-replicate to not sync file deletions > immediately to the slave, but instead queue those deletions for a > configurable period of time (say 7 days). > > As an added bonus, moving a file would actually leave a copy behind with a > data stamp suffix on the slave. I could then have a cron job cleanup old > file copies. Lastly I would then expose the geo-replicated volume to users > as read-only so they could retrieve old files if necessary, perhaps in a > web-ui. At the end of the day I suppose I'm looking for a VSS style > solution. > > From some research it doesn't look like either of these solutions exist in > Gluster right now, are there any plans for this type of use-case? Obviously > this would cause some serious havoc if the volume was used as a VM store so > it would need to be properly cautioned. > > Otherwise, anyone know of an opensource solution that could do this? > > > *Steve Dainard * > IT Infrastructure Manager > Miovision <http://miovision.com/> | *Rethink Traffic* > 519-513-2407 ex.250 > 877-646-8476 (toll-free) > > *Blog <http://miovision.com/blog> | **LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/miovision-technologies> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/miovision> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/miovision> > * > ------------------------------ > Miovision Technologies Inc. | 148 Manitou Drive, Suite 101, Kitchener, > ON, Canada | N2C 1L3 > This e-mail may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If > you are not the intended recipient, please delete the e-mail and any > attachments and notify us immediately. > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20131024/186c6daf/attachment.html>
